The German meat market is facing considerable changes. Along with the boom of case-ready and discount stores, butchers and smaller retailers loose market shares, and private labels become widely accepted. The consumers' preferences are often neglected by these trends. This contribution discusses...

A unified method to detect and handle innovational and additive outliers, and permanent and transient level changes has been presented by R.S. Tsay, N.S. Balke has found that the presence of level changes may lead to misidentification and loss of test-power, and suggests augmenting Tsay's...

In this paper we use mixed logit specifications to allow parameters to vary in the population when estimating the value of time for long-distance car travel.

We analyse the model in which the latent durations Ti are i.i.d. generated by a distribution F. The statistician observes Yi= min (ti, Ci) and Ai=1I {Ti <= Ci} where ci is a censoring time. The prior probability on F is a Dirichlet process Di (n0F0).

Population aging challenges pay-as-you-go pension systems. Solving the associated funding problem constantly motivates reform processes. In addition to an aging population, specific regulations of the German public pension system lead to an increasing financial burden of national finances. To...

Due to Germany’s specific farm structure, the progressive modulation of direct payments decided within the Health Check of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is of particular relevance for German agriculture. In this paper we apply the agent-based model AgriPoliS to shed some light on the...