In the paper we analyze the convergence process of the West German Laender from 1970 to 1995 using descriptive tools as well as panel estimation methods. Although there have been some winners in this process, the main finding is that convergence was insufficient in the sense that no gains have...

The main characteristic of the implementation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) is the transition from various national currencies to the Euro, the common European currency. A final fixing of the individual bilateral exchange rates of all European countries involved in the Monetary Union...

In order to simplify the representation of a technological relationship between inputs and outputs, a production unit's technology must typically satisfy some restrictive conditions, some of them being well known in the literature. This paper presents new results for aggregating labour inputs...

Das Statistische Bundesamt hat im Frühjahr 2005 die Berechnung des realen Bruttoinlandsprodukts von der Festpreisbasis auf die Vorjahrespreisbasis umgestellt. Ein zentrales Problem ist die Nichtadditivität von verketteten Volumenwerten, d.h. die Summe verketteter Teilaggregate weicht in aller...

Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Genauigkeit der staatlichen Defizitquo-te im Sinne der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen vor dem Hinter-grund des Adäquationsproblems. Einzelne umstrittene Verbuchungsfragen, die mit der zeitlichen und sektoralen Zuordnung von Strömen verbunden sind,...

The aggregate Frisch elasticity of labor supply has played a key role in business cycle analysis. This paper develops a statistical aggregation procedure which allows for worker heterogeneity in observables and unobservables and is applicable to an individual labor supply function with...

In the paper we analyze the convergence process of the West German Laender from 1970 to 1995 using descriptive tools as well as panel estimation methods. Although there have been some winners in this process, the main finding is that convergence was insufficient in the sense that no gains have...

The main characteristic of the implementation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) is the transition from various national currencies to the Euro, the common European currency. A final fixing of the individual bilateral exchange rates of all European countries involved in the Monetary Union...

Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Genauigkeit der staatlichen Defizitquote im Sinne der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen vor dem Hintergrund des Adäquationsproblems. Einzelne umstrittene Verbuchungsfragen, die mit der zeitlichen und sektoralen Zuordnung von Strömen verbunden sind,...