Das vorliegende Buch ist eine Einführung in die praktische Arbeit mit makroökonometrischen Modellen. Die Autoren sind auf dem Feld national und international ausgewiesene Wissenschaftler. Die Beiträge thematisieren alle Aspekte des Verständnisses der statistisch/ökonometrisch und...

Empirical studies analyzing the determinants of U.S. presidential popularity have delivered quite inconclusive results concerning the role of economic variables by assuming linear relationships. We employ penalized spline smoothing in the context of semi-parametric additive mixed models and...

It is common practice to estimate the volatility-growth link by specifying a standard growth equation such that the variance of the error term appears as an explanatory variable in this growth equation. The variance in turn is modelled by a second equation. Hardly any of existing applications of...

Urban renewal areas are popular instruments in spatial planning to prevent urban decline and to induce urban renewal. 22 renewal areas were implemented in Berlin, Germany alone between 1993 and 1995, mainly to increase housing and living quality in the aftermath of the city s long division...