By lifting lockdown measures as coronavirus case numbers are rising and the vaccine rollout is proceeding slowly, the German economy is being sent on a stop-go course. Re-opening measures will probably be followed by renewed closures, at least regionally, in order to keep the spread of COVID-19...

Lockdown-Lockerungen trotz bereits wieder steigender Corona-Infektionszahlen und der langsame Impffortschritt schicken die deutsche Wirtschaft auf einen Stop-and-Go-Kurs. Auf Öffnungsschritte müssen wohl mindestens regional immer wieder Schließungen folgen, um das Infektionsgeschehen im Griff...

In this study, we investigate whether population aging influences employment shares in different economic sectors. To this end, we employ dynamic panel data analysis. Our unbalanced data set comprises 54 countries and extends to a maximum time period from 1970 till 2004. Our results suggest that...

This paper suggests a novel approach to pre-selection of the component series of the diffusion index based on their individual forecasting performance. It is shown that this targeted selection allows substantially improving the forecasting ability compared to the diffusion index models that are...