The study analyses the business cycles of the G7 countries in a structural vector autoregression(SVAR) framework comprising output, nominal interest rate and inflation. Common and country-specific supply, demand and nominal shocks of each G7 country are identified, and the corresponding shock...

[Deutschland: Produktion überschreitet die Normalauslastung - Expansion setzt sich verlangsamt fort] Die konjunkturelle Erholung ist in Deutschland mittlerweile so weit fortgeschritten, dass die gesamtwirtschaftlichen Produktionskapazitäten in diesem Jahr wieder normal ausgelastet sind. Im...

[Deutschland: Konjunkturelle Expansion gerät ins Stocken] Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung wird in der zweiten Jahreshälfte zwar noch leicht aufwärtsgerichtet bleiben, die Dynamik wird aber spürbar schwächer ausfallen als in den ersten sechs Monaten. Maßgeblich hierfür sind ein weniger...

The study analyses the business cycles of the G7 countries in a structural vector autoregression(SVAR) framework comprising output, nominal interest rate and inflation. Common and country-specific supply, demand and nominal shocks of each G7 country are identified, and the corresponding shock...

This study readdresses the determinants of business cycle synchronisation. We test, on the one hand, whether FDI promoting policies may have consequences for the business cycle comovement between countries, and on the other hand, whether more plausible identification strategies change previous...

The aim of this paper is to assess the dimension of factors and shocks that drive financial conditions, and in particular financial stress in the euro area. A second aim is to construct summary indices on the conditions and level of stress in financial markets with the aid of a dynamic factor...

The path of output prior to the financial and economic crisis turned out to be not sustainable and lower than previously estimated in some European crisis countries. Specifically, the output gaps have been underestimated (and inversely potential output overestimated) before the recent crisis. It...