Rund um den Globus läuft ein Großangriff auf unseren Wohlstand. Die neuen Nationalisten wollen Grenzen schließen, den Handel beschränken, die internationale Verflechtung der Wirtschaft zurückdrehen. Für den Exportweltmeister Deutschland ist diese schleichende Deglobalisierung besonders...

Zur Bekämpfung der Finanzkrise haben Zentralbanken und Regierungen eine Menge Geld in die Wirtschaft gepumpt. Wenn die Geldmenge nicht rechtzeitig reduziert wird, droht eine Infl ation schlimmen Ausmasses. Für die Bürger wäre das eine Katastrophe, denn ihre Vermögen würden vernichtet und...

In this paper, we present a new indicator to measure the media coverage of inflation. Our Inflation Perception Indicator (IPI) for Germany is based on a corpus of three million articles published by broadsheet newspapers between January 2001 and February 2022. It is designed to detect thematic...

Text mining is an active field of statistical research. In this paper we use two methods from text mining: the Poisson Reduced Rank Model (PRR, see Jentsch et al. 2020; Jentsch et al. 2021) and the Latent Dirichlet Allocation model (LDA, see Blei et al. 2003) for the statistical analysis of party...

The prompt availability of information on the current state of the economy in real-time is required for prediction purposes and crucial for timely policy adjustment and economic decision-making. While important macroeconomic indicators are reported only quarterly and also published with...

Die gesamte Weltwirtschaft wurde von der Finanzmarktkrise der vergangenen Jahre erheblich getroffen. Auch der Einzelhandel in Deutschland hatte mit Umsatzeinbußen zu kämpfen, überstand diese Zeit allerdings verhältnismäßig glimpflich. Der Großhandel hat sich nach teilweise deutlich...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act constitutes the largest change to the US tax system since the 1980s and thoroughly alters the way in which multinational companies are taxed. Current assessments on the reform’s international impact vary widely. This article sheds light on the tax reform’s expected...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act constitutes the largest change to the US tax system since the 1980s and thoroughly alters the way in which multinational companies are taxed. Current assessments on the reform's international impact vary widely. This article sheds light on the tax reform's expected...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act constitutes the largest change to the US tax system since the 1980s and thoroughly alters the way in which multinational companies are taxed. Current assessments on the reform’s international impact vary widely. This article sheds light on the tax reform’s expected...