The paper evaluates the quality of the German national accounting data (GDP and its use-side components) as measured by the magnitude and dispersion of the forecast/revision errors. It is demonstrated that government consumption series are the least reliable, whereas real GDP and real private...

We present the operationalized Toll Index, which is a new type of early indicator for the German business cycle. We present the basic idea and document the power of the indicator for the purpose of nowcasting. The data will be regularly available at the IDSC, the data bank center of IZA and will...

The paper presents the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS), which is one of the most widely used household and labor force surveys in Eastern Europe. It is based on a statistically representative sample of the Ukrainian population aged between 15 and 72 years, comprising about 4,000...

Das IfM Bonn hat in diesem Tabellenband das aktuell verfügbare statistische Datenmaterial zum Unternehmensbestand in Deutschland zusammengefasst. Neben den Schlüsselzahlen zum Mittelstand insgesamt (Anteilswerte kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen am Unternehmensbestand, am Umsatz und an den...