Public investment has been badly neglected in Germany over the past two decades, with the result that the public capital stock no longer meets the standards of a modern economy and is inadequate for the challenges that will be posed by demographic change and Germany's international...

In this paper we present a methodology which can help to improve the assessment of the current economic situation. We propose an approach which combines multivariate single equations to forecast the monthly growth rate of industrial production with a density forecast. This allows to estimate the...

Der Teilumstieg vom umlagefinanzierten gesetzlichen Rentensystem hin zur kapitalgedeckten Riester-Rente hält nicht, was er verspricht. Viele haben keinen Riester-Vertrag oder zahlen wenig ein. Finanzmarkt- und Euro-Krise reduzieren die Renditen. Auch mit der Kapitaldeckung können die...

In this paper we present a methodology which can help to improve the assessment of the current economic situation. We propose an approach which combines multivariate single equations to forecast the monthly growth rate of industrial production with a density forecast. This allows to estimate the...

Both the German federal as well as the general government recorded a surplus for the fourth time in a row in 2017. The fast consolidation after the Great Recession coincided with the transition period for the full introduction of the federal debt brake, which is sometimes interpreted as...