Der Beitrag ordnet die Bereitstellung von Forschungsinfrastruktur in den Sozial-, Verhaltens- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften in die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer forschungsbasierten Evaluation und Beratung von Politik ein. Entsprechend werden einige Hinweise für die Weiterentwicklung der...

Indicators of government activity must be carefully designed to be relevant, credible and accountable. Frustration with reform pressures suggests that measures of policy activity are not providing accurate information. In fact, indicators of product or labour market regulation fail to measure...

This paper offers an exhaustive analysis of the effectiveness of several models and methodologies that are commonly used to forecast financial failure: Linear, MDA, Logit, and artificial neural network. Our main aim is to evaluate their relative strengths and weaknesses, in terms of technical...

Demand is growing for a better understanding of how assets are priced in countries outside of the U.S. While financial data are available for many firms world-wide, it is important to have a reliable and replicable method of constructing high-quality systematic risk factors from these data. This...

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...

Height data are a useful and concise summary measure of human welfare for historical populations in absence of conventional economical data. Most historical studies use the final attained height of adults aged between about 20-23 and 49 years on the premise that younger subjects were still...

Simpler to me would be a lunar colony with a mini nuclear power plant. The materials for the panels would in both cases be found on the moon. Launching of the panels would benefit from the low gravity on the moon (1/6 of earth gravity) and the earth would still be saved from the environmental...

Using new data on returns and risk factors the paper considers the stock performance on the Japanese market, which is the second largest in the world and operates under unique macroeconomic conditions. We find that the CAPM model is not an adequate approach for the Japanese market. The Carhart...

We examine the characteristics and the quality of equity data from Thomson Reuters Datastream (Datastream) to evaluate, whether Datastream can be used as the primary data source for academic studies on the German stock market. We document market coverage issues in Datastream before 1990....

The recent unprecedented growth of telecom facilities has offered the Internet users in most Asian countries a flavour of broadband. Yet, despite rosy promises by telcos, the user experience has often been less than ideal. These challenges can only be overcome by right policy decisions based on...