Die Konjunktur in Deutschland wird im Laufe dieses Jahres spürbar anziehen und damit die Schwächephase der vergangenen Herbst- und Wintermonate überwinden. Bereits im zweiten Halbjahr dürfte die Produktion wieder schneller zunehmen als die gesamtwirtschaftlichen Kapazitäten wachsen. Diese...

The focus of this paper is the evaluation of a very popular method for potential output estimation and medium-term forecasting the production function approachin terms of predictive performance. For this purpose, a forecast evaluation for the three to five years ahead predictions of GDP growth...

Forecasts for the two or three years after mid-2014 have converged on growth rates of real GDP in the range of 3.0 to 3.5 percent, a major stepwise increase from realized growth of 2.1 percent between mid-2009 and mid-2014. However, these forecasts are based on the demand for goods and services....