Along with the oil price, concerns about the security of energy supply have soared once again in recent years. Yet … parameter. Applying the proposed concept to empirical energy data on Germany and the U.S. (1980-2004), we find that there is an … inter-temporally increasing gap in the energy supply risk between both countries, with Germany suffering much more from a …

inflation sentiment. We construct some simple measures of inflation sentiment which capture whether price acceleration is shared … indicators for the US and Germany, we demonstrate that our inflation sentiment indicators improve forecast accuracy in comparison …

In this paper, the inter-industry wage structure in West Germany and USA is compared using the German Socio …