Aggregated output in industrialized countries has become less volatile over the past decades. Whether this Great Moderationʺ can be found in firm level data as well remains disputed. We study the evolution of firm level output volatility using a balanced panel dataset on German firms that...

Stylized facts suggest that output volatility in OECD countries has declined in recent years. However, the causes and the nature of this decline have so far been analyzed mainly for the United States. In this paper, we analyze whether structural breaks in the dynamics and the volatility of the...

The present paper uses German annual data covering the period 1969-2000 to present evidence on the link between aggregate inflation and the higher-order moments of the distribution of relative price changes. Our empirical findings confirm predictions of contributions to the theoretical...

Im Juni 2015 haben die Bundesregierung und der Sachverständigenrat gemeinsam die Ziele und Instrumente des Stabilitäts- und Wachstumsgesetzes überprüft. Insbesondere lag ein Hauptaugenmerk darauf, ob das Gesetz um Ziele zu Aspekten der Nachhaltigkeit ergänzt werden könnte. Das eindeutige...

Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of unemployment. Yet, high unemployment has universally been a persistent problem throughout the last two...