On the labour markets, recent decades were characterised by structural supply-side reforms in many countries. Following its hawkish reforms from the 2000s, Germany has recently made a dovish turnaround. Conditions in basic income support for unemployed became more generous. Before, a temporary...

Information flows across international financial markets typically occur within hours, making volatility spillover appear contemporaneous in daily data. Such simultaneous transmission of variances is featured by the stochastic volatility model developed in this paper, in contrast to usually...

Die soziale Absicherung in der Plattformarbeit weist gravierende Lücken auf. Das Konzept "Digitale Soziale Sicherung" zeigt, wie die Sozialversicherung auch in einen sehr kurzfristig agierenden, (teilweise) internationalen Markt integriert werden kann. Dabei wird in die Plattformen ein...

SFB 649 Discussion Paper 2006-056 The Euro and the Transatlantic Capital Market Leadership: A Recursive Cointegration Analysis Enzo Weber* * Institut für Statistik und Ökonometrie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany This research was supported by the Deutsche...

SFB 649 Discussion Paper 2006-064 Common and Uncommon Sources of Growth in Asia Pacific Enzo Weber* * Institut für Statistik und Ökonometrie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany This research was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through the...