Zusammenfassung In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die Leistungsfähigkeit zweier Verfahren zur Verdeutlichung der konjunkturellen Entwicklung einer wirtschaftlichen Zeitreihe am aktuellen Rand verglichen. Es handelt sich dabei um einen neu entwickelten Tiefpassfilter und das...

Summary The Baxter-King filter shows some weaknesses, particularly with regard to monthly time series. This procedure involves not only a loss of data for the border areas of time series, but suppresses inadequately high frequency components and shows as a low-pass filter only the performance of...

Summary The rise of the East-German economy in the 1950s and 1960s and its decline in the 1970s and 1980s is difficult to explain by neoclassical economics. However; the observed life cycle may be explained by the inclusion of concepts from old and new institutional economics and from functional...

This study empirically examines the effectiveness of Fed intervention on the USD/DM exchange market using an event study approach. The event window is defined as 4 (8) days prior/post an intervention. Based on the empirical analysis, the results show that when the Fed follows an "against the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to uncover the direction of causality between foreign exchange market and stock market in Bangladesh, where financial markets are yet in their early development stage. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs the Granger causality tests using...

Summary Macroeconomic policy analysis is a challenge for agent-based models because these types of model are generally much elaborated on the specific market levels for partial (micro) markets, but have been of limited use for macroeconomic policy issues due to calibration and “model...