Die Nachfolgestaaten des früheren Jugoslawiens haben in den vergangenen Jahren beachtliche ökonomische Erfolge erzielt. Die Wachstumsraten lagen zumeist bei 5 bis 6 Prozent jährlich, die Arbeitslosigkeit konnte deutlich reduziert und die Inflation stark eingedämmt werden. Der Rückstand in...

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This paper shows that the explanation of the decline in the volatility of GDP growth since the mid-eighties is not the decline in the volatility of exogenous shocks but rather a change in their propagation mechanism.

This paper derives forecasts for euro area real GDP growth based on a bottom up approach from the production side. That is, GDP is forecast via the forecasts of value added across the different branches of activity, which is quite new in the literature. Linear regression models in the form of...

This paper shows that the EMU has not affected historical characteristics of member countries’ business cycles and their cross-correlations. Member countries which had similar levels of GDP per-capita in the seventies have also experienced similar business cycles since then and no significant...