Die sächsischen Exporte konzentrieren sich auf wenige Absatzmärkte. Besonders deutlich zeigt sich dies im Kraftfahrzeugbau, weniger ausgeprägt auch im Maschinenbau und in der Elektrotechnik. Diese Fokus sierung auf wenige Handelspartner bringt gewisse Risiken mit sich, welche durch weitere...

This paper examines to what extent the build-up of global imbalances since the mid-1990s can be explained in a purely real open-economy DSGE model in which agents' perceptions of long-run growth are based on filtering observed changes in productivity. We show that long-run growth estimates based...

It is well-known that nonresponse affects the results of surveys and can even causebias due to selectivities if it cannot be regarded as missing at random. In contrast tohousehold surveys, response behaviour in business surveys has been examined rarely inthe literature. This paper is one of the...

In dem Diskussionspapier werden alle Umfrageergebnisse des Jahres 2001 zusammengefasst. Sie vermitteln einen Überblick über die Umsatz- und Beschäftigungsentwicklung 2001, die Ertragslage der Unternehmen im Längsschnittvergleich seit 1997, die Investitionstätigkeit und die...

This paper describes how to use the R package gateveys to establish a transparent and reproducible aggregation work flow for longitudinal data stemming from business tendency surveys (BTS). Business tendency survey researchers are addressed in particular though the suggested work flow could also...

Using business survey data on German manufacturing firms, this paper provides tests for hypotheses formulated in capital market imperfection theories that predict distributional effects in the transmission of monetary policy. The business conditions of small firms are found to be somewhat more...

Inventory fluctuations are an important phenomenon in business cycles. However, the preliminary data on inventory investment as published in the German national accounts are tremendously prone to revision and therefore ill-equipped to diagnose the current stance of the inventory cycle. The Ifo...

This paper estimates a simple univariate model of expectation or opinion formation in continuous time adapting a 'canonical' stochastic model of collective opinion dynamics (Weidlich and Haag, 1983; Lux, 1995, 2007). This framework is applied to a selected data set on survey-based expectations from...

Business cycle indicators are used to assess the economic situation of countries or regions. They are closely watched by the public, but are not easy to interpret. Does a current movement of the indicator signal a turning point or not? With the help of Markov Switching Models movements of...