Data protection has become an increasingly important aspect of consumer policy in recent years in Germany. One of the most interesting subjects under discussion was that of scoring. Scoring attempts to give a prognosis as to whether a consumer is willing and able to repay a given kind of credit....

Political parties in Germany reacted with numerous suggestions on the heavy losses for consumers in financial markets. Besides a more intensive regulation for financial services a number of new institutions were suggested, like installing a financial watchdog or a financial inspection agency or...

A large proportion of today’s econometric literature addresses the question of whether long run GDP follows a random walk or a log linear trend with one or more structural breaks. Much less attention is paid to the modelling of the long run trend and cycle component. In most studies, the trend...

[fre] La réponse à la question de savoir si les cycles longs existent ou non dépend principalement des méthodes statistiques utilisées pour les analyser. Depuis l’article fondateur de Kondratiev dans les années 1920, ces méthodes ont fait l’objet d’importants changements. La...

The answer to the question, whether long waves exist or not depends mainly on the statistical methods used for analysis. Since the seminal work of Kondratieff in the 1920th these methods underwent significant changes. The fundamental critic against the traditional approaches in the 1970th lead...