Nachdem im ersten Teil der Artikelserie die Datenlage im Mittelpunkt stand, analysiert der vorliegende Aufsatz mit Hilfe der Umsatzdaten der Industrie den Konjunkturzyklus in den deutschen Bundesländern. Zunächst werden verschiedene in der Literatur übliche Ansätze zur Definition eines...

The business cycle is a complex phenomenon which attracts both scientific and public attention. For the latter case it is the pattern which displays the status of an economy as a whole including welfare, employment and social issues. For the former case we consider two main questions to give an...

Im letzten Teil der dreiteiligen Artikelserie zu regionalen Konjunkturzyklen in Deutschland wird untersucht, ob die Wirtschaftszyklen der Bundesländer im Zeitverlauf ähnlicher werden, d.h. konvergieren. Aufbauend auf Teil II werden zunächst die für alle Bundesländer berechneten Wendepunkte...

We tackle the nowcasting problem at the regional level using a large set of indicators (regional, national and international) for the years 1998 to 2013. We explicitly use the ragged-edge data structure and consider the different information sets faced by a regional forecaster within each...

The European Commission follows a harmonized approach for calculating structural (potential) output for EU member states that takes into account labor as an important ingredient. This paper shows how the recent huge migrants inflow to Europe affects trend output. Due to the fact that the...

Comprehensive and international comparable leading indicators across countries and continents are rare. In this paper, we use a free and instantaneous available source of leading indicators, the ifo World Economic Survey (WES), to forecast growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 44 countries...

We tackle the nowcasting problem at the regional level using a large set of indicators (regional, national and international) for the years 1998 to 2013. We explicitly use the ragged-edge data structure and consider the different information sets faced by a regional forecaster within each...