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Long-run Trends or Short-run Fluctuations – What Establishes the Correlation between Oil and Food Prices?The Interplay of Standardized Tests and Incentives – An Econometric Analysi...

Krätschel, Karoline; Schmidt, Torsten - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012

In this paper we use the frequency domain Granger causality test of Breitung/Candelon (2006) to analyse short- and long-run causality between energy prices and prices of food commodities. We find that the oil price Granger causes all the considered food prices. However, when controlling for...

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Really Pushing the Envelope: Early Use of the Envelope Theorem by Auspitz and Lieben

Schmidt, Torsten - In: History of Political Economy 36 (2004) 1, pp. 103-129

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On the Origins of Ordinal Utility: Andreas Heinrich Voigt and the Mathematicians

Schmidt, Torsten; Weber, Christian E. - In: History of Political Economy 40 (2008) 3, pp. 481-510

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In Search for a Credit Crunch in Germany

Schmidt, Torsten; Zwick, Lina - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether a credit crunch occurred in Germany during the recent financial crisis and to analyze the underlying factors. In order to disentangle credit supply and demand we specify a theory-based dynamic disequilibrium model of the German credit market....

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ANDREAS HEINRICH VOIGT AND THE HICKS-ALLEN REVOLUTION IN CONSUMER THEORY

SCHMIDT, TORSTEN; WEBER, CHRISTIAN E. - In: Economic Inquiry 50 (2012) 3, pp. 625-640

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Projektion der mittelfristigen Wirtschaftsentwicklung bis 2017: Zunehmende Kapazitätsauslastung birgt Risiken für die Preisstabilität

Barabas, György; Gebhardt, Heinz; Schmidt, Torsten; … - In: RWI Konjunkturbericht (2013) 03, pp. 12-12

Nach der konjunkturellen Schwächephase, in die Deutschland im Winterhalbjahr 2012/2013 geraten ist, dürfte die deutsche Wirtschaft im weiteren Verlauf dieses Jahres – wie in unserer Kurzfristprognose skizziert (Döhrn et al. 2013) – an Schwung gewinnen. Dazu trägt die robuste...

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Practice and Prospects of Medium-term Economic Forecasting

Hofer, Helmut; Schmidt, Torsten; Weyerstrass, Klaus - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 231 (2011) 1, pp. 153-171

Government agencies and other national and international institutions are asked to perform forecasts over the medium term. In particular, the EU Stability and Growth Pact contains the obligation to formulate stability programmes over four years, covering a general economic outlook as well as the...

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Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung im Ausland: Moderate Expansion der Weltwirtschaft

Schmidt, Torsten; Döhrn, Roland; Jäger, Philipp; … - In: RWI Konjunkturbericht (2014) 09, pp. 34-34

In der ersten Jahreshälfte hat sich das Expansionstempo der Weltwirtschaft etwas abgeschwächt. Dabei wurde die konjunkturelle Grunddynamik in zahlreichen Ländern von Sonderfaktoren überlagert. Insgesamt führten diese kurzfristig wirkenden Faktoren dazu, dass sich die Produktionsausweitung...

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Forecasting real estate prices in Germany: the role of consumer confidence

Meulen, Philipp an de; Micheli, Martin; Schmidt, Torsten - In: Journal of Property Research 31 (2014) 3, pp. 244-263

The aim of the paper is to analyse the forecasting ability of various potential predictors for real estate prices in Germany over the short term. In the wake of the financial crisis, real estate prices in Germany started to increase markedly and still did so by the end of 2013. Despite a number...

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Long-run trends or short-run fluctuations What establishes the correlation between oil and food prices?

Krätschell, Karoline; Schmidt, Torsten - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

In this paper we use the frequency domain Granger causality test of Breitung/Candelon (2006) to analyse short and long-run causality between energy prices and prices of food commodities. We find that the oil price Granger causes all the considered food prices. However, when controlling for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010986047