We study the effects of oil-price shocks on the U.S. economy combining narrative and quantitative approaches. After examining daily oil-related events since 1984, we classify them into various event types. We then develop measures of exogenous shocks that avoid endogeneity and predictability...

In this spirited and provocative book, Edward Leamer turns an examination of the Heckscher–Ohlin framework for global competition into an opportunity to consider the craft of economics: what economists do, what they should do, and what they shouldn’t do. Claiming “a lifetime relationship...

Das Gründungsgeschehen ist seit den 70er Jahren ein Forschungsschwerpunkt des IfM Bonn. Zur qualitativen und quantitativen Erfassung des Gründungsgeschehens greift das IfM Bonn auf verschiedene Statistiken zurück (Statistik der Gewerbemeldungen, fluktuationsrelevante Informationen aus...