Forecasting real economic activity poses a considerable challenge not only due to hard-to-predict events like the current financial crisis but also due to the fact that targeted variables often undergo significant revisions after their first publication. In this paper we report the results of a...

At the FIFA World Cup 2006, the method of using the market value of the teams (“transfer value”) was first proposed as a simple and transparent basis for forecasting the outcome of a major football tournament. Indeed, the countries with players of the highest market value were world...

Der Ausgangspunkt unserer Analyse ist der Rat der Enquete-Kommission "Wachstum, Wohlstand, Lebensqualität" des Deutschen Bundestags, "das bestehende Berichts- und Sachverständigenwesen der Bundesregierung im Wege einer Evaluierung auf Redundanzen und Verbesserungsmöglichkeiten hin zu...

Der Beitrag ordnet die Bereitstellung von Forschungsinfrastruktur in den Sozial- , Verhaltens- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften in die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer forschungsbasierten Evaluation und Beratung von Politik ein. Entsprechend werden einige Hinweise für die Weiterentwicklung der...

Changes in communication technology have allowed for the expansion of data collection modes in survey research. The proliferation of the computer has allowed the creation of web and computer assisted auto-interview data collection modes. Virtual worlds are a new application of computer...

Historically, football experts' predictions were the only method of predicting the outcomes of championships. Former players, coaches, and nearly all fans have tried their hand at it. And most of these predictions were wrong, since subjective desires and prevailing public opinions always played...

This paper examines the implication of the move to CAPI for data quality by analyzing the conversion from PAPI to CAPI of a subsample of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) which was done within an experimental design. The 2000 addresses for the sample E of SOEP were split into two subsamples...

Changes in communication technology have allowed for the expansion of data collection modes in survey research. The proliferation of the computer has allowed the creation of web and computer assisted auto-interview data collection modes. Virtual worlds are a new application of computer...

Die hier vorgestellten Projektergebnisse wurden im Rahmen des Projekts EDaWaX (European Data Watch Extended, www.edawax.de) erarbeitet. EDaWaX wird von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (www.dfg.de) gefördert. Institutionell beteiligt sind an diesem Projekt der Rat für Sozial- und...