Recent studies use names—first and surnames—to estimate intergenerational mobility in sources that lack direct family links. While generating novel evidence on intergenerational transmission processes, it remains unclear how different estimators compare and how reliable they are. This paper...

This paper illustrates the effects of item-nonresponse in surveys on the results of multivariate statistical analysis when estimation of productivity is the task. To multiply impute the missing data a data augmentation algorithm based on a normal/Wishart model is applied. Data of the German IAB...

The Romanian vegetable market is in continuous development, with consumers preferring local vegetables to the detriment of imported ones. Even though there is a very good potential and a fairly varied supply of fresh vegetables on the domestic market, some of the producers have given up making...

The sentiment of news predicts the short-term stock market performance of individual companies. We find that this association is solely due to the idiosyncratic informational content of an article. We transparently quantify the association between news sentiment and stock market performance of...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can improve the resiliency of both individual financial institutions and the financial sector as a whole. Yet, its users must balance benefits and risks of these technologies. This paper illustrates five focus points which financial institutions should consider when...

We construct an index for economic policy uncertainty in Denmark using articles in Denmark's largest financial newspaper. We adapt a Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model to sort articles into topics. We combine article-specific topic weights with the occurrence of words describing uncertainty...

We construct novel proxies of physical and transition climate risks by conducting textual analysis of climate-change news over the period 2000-2018. This analysis uncovers four textual variables related to the topics of U.S. climate policy, international summits, natural disasters, and global...

Die vierteljährliche volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung (VGR) ist das wichtigste Analyse- und Prognose-Instrument des Konjunkturforschers. Das DIW stellt dafür schon seit vielen Jahren - in Ergänzung zu den Daten des Statistischen Bundesamtes (StaBu) - ein geschlossenes Kreislaufsystem zur...

Haushaltsstichproben wie die EVS spiegeln die Randbereiche der Verteilung nur unzureichend. Um die oberen Einkommensbereiche besser abzubilden, bietet sich eine Analyse der Einkommensteuerstatistik an, in der die "reichen" Haushalte bzw. Personen vollständig sind. Einkommenskonzept und...

[Contents] 1 Development of sample sizes 2 1.1 Development of the number of successful interviews by cross-section 2 1.2 Longitudinal development of losses due to panel attrition 10 1.3 Entrants by birth or move-ins and their participation behavior 14 2 Losses due to unsuccessful follow-up 15...