"This paper investigates the role of mismatch between job seekers and job openings for the forecasting performance of a labor market matching function. In theory, higher mismatch lowers matching efficiency which increases the risk that the vacancies cannot be filled within the usual period of...

Wie alle Vorhersagen weichen auch die ifo Konjunkturprognosen in gewissem Umfang von den später veröffentlichten amtlichen Ergebnissen ab. Um die größtmögliche Transparenz zu gewährleisten, werden hier die ifo Konjunkturprognosen für das reale BIP in Deutschland seit 1991 dokumentiert und...

Die in den vergangenen zehn Jahren vom IFO INSTITUT veröffentlichen Konjunkturprognosen für Ostdeutschland und Sachsen haben sich als ebenso verlässlich erwiesen wie die Prognosen für Deutschland insgesamt. In den letzten Jahren konnte durch eine Weiterentwicklung des...

"The paper investigates the predictive power of a new survey implemented by the Federal Employment Agency (FEA) for forecasting German unemployment in the short run. Every month, the CEOs of the FEA's regional agencies are asked about their expectations of future labor market developments. We...

It is standard in applied work to select forecasting models by ranking candidate models by their prediction mean squared error (PMSE) in simulated out-of-sample (SOOS) forecasts. Alternatively, forecast models may be selected using information criteria (IC). We compare the asymptotic and...

The bond-equity yield ratio is defined as the ratio of the coupon yield on long government bonds to the dividend yield on equity. Commonly named in the UK as the gilt-equity yield ratio (GEYR), it has been argued to capture the relative value of bonds and equities through the differential in...

This paper applies a Threshold Regression model to test for asymmetric pricing in the retail gasoline market in Canada, using weekly data for the period January, 1990 to december , 1996.

This paper proposes a new approach to modeling volatility changes and clustering, we use a parsimonious high-order markov chain which allows for duration dependence.

The aim of this article is the study of complex structures which are behind the short-term predictability of stock returns series. In this regard, we employ a seasonal version of the Mackey-Glass-GARCH(p,q) model, initially proposed by Kyrtsou and Terraza (2003) and generalized by Kyrtsou (2005,...