The article deals with the treatment of the government in the new version of the European System of Accounts (ESA 1995). lt shows the sectorization, the definition of government revenues and expenditures, and the recording of government transactions in the generation, distribution and use of...

Based on the hypothesis that microdata are of crucial importance for internationally competitive economic research and scientific advice in economic and social policy, the authors develop various proposals for an improved data supply for empirical work in Germany. Present shortcomings are mainly...

An eternal motive of human existence is the search for guidance.While values and beliefs retain their high relevance, today's enlightened societies also tend to rest their aspirations and decisions on the actual facts and on a sober assessment of possible courses of events emerging from...

This textbook presents the most important models and procedures in time series analysis. It focuses on the time domain, with special consideration of explorative methods, ARMA models and their extensions, predictive methods, and time series regressions. The new edition has been updated and...

"Commodity Modeling and Pricing provides extensions and applications of state-of-the-art methods for analyzing resource commodity behavior. Drawing From the seminal work of Professor Walter Labys on the development of econometric methods for forecasting commodity prices, this collection of...