In den USA wird seit 1996 die Wachstumsrate des realen BIP auf der Basis eines "chain-type annual-weighted" Fisher-Index ermittelt, d.h. die Wachstumsrate des realen BIP ist zwar unabhängig vom Basisjahr, andererseits ist aber nicht mehr gewährleistet, dass das BIP gleich der Summe seiner...

Die weltwirtschaftliche Entwicklung ist im Frühsommer 2004 aufwärts gerichtet. Die USA, Südostasien, Japan und - wenn auch deutlich schwächer - die europäischen Volkswirtschaften sind gemeinsam im konjunkturellen Aufwind. Im weiteren Verlauf dieses Jahres und 2005 wird sich die Dynamik...

During World War II the United States rapidly transformed its economy to cope with a wide range of scarcities, such as shortfalls in the amounts of ocean shipping, aluminum, rubber, and other raw materials needed for the war effort. This paper explores the mobilization to see whether it provides...

To cover fully the economics of war would require encyclopedia unto itself. Here I will provide brief introductions to four questions: (1) to what extent did economic forces cause America's wars, (2) after going to war, how has the United States managed the reallocation of resources, (3) how has...

Between mid-1939 and mid-1943 almost 2.2 million additional women were recruited into Britain's essential war industries. These consisted, predominantly, of young women recruited into metal and chemical industries. Much of the increased labour supply was achieved through government directed...

In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World War. At the end of the War the Sumner Committee was convened to investigate into effects of these...

The Iran-Iraq War were one of the longest and most devastating uninterrupted wars amongst modern nation states. It produced neither victor nor vanquished and left the regimes in both countries basically intact. However, it is clear that the domestic, regional and international repercussions of...

Many macroeconometric models depict situations where the shares of the major demand aggregates in output are stable over time. The joint dynamic behavior of the considered demand aggregate and output may thus be approximated by a cointegrated vector autoregression. However, the shares of many...

National accounts data are always revised. Not only recent data, but also figures dating many years back can be revised substantially. This means that there is a danger that an important part of the central bank's information set is flawed for a long period of time. In this paper we present a...