Aßmann, Christian (contributor); Hogrefe, Jens (contributor) - 2006
Empirical evidence suggests a sharp volatility decline of the growth in U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) in the mid …-1980s. Using Bayesian methods, we analyze whether a volatility reduction can also be detected for the German GDP. Since … volatility analysis different time series models for GDP growth. We find across all specifications evidence for an output …