Final energy consumption and CO2 emissions in Iran increased by 67% and 81% between 2001 and 2011, respectively. The question is, what factors have been the drivers of energy consumption in this time interval? In order to answer this question, we use structural decomposition analysis and index...

We study the role of occupational tasks as drivers of West German wage inequality. We match administrative wage data with longitudinal task data, which allows us to account for within-occupation changes in task content over time. We run RIF regression-based decompositions to quantify the...

This paper applies a novel approach to decompose measures of natural capital wealth. It looks ‘under the hood’ of wealth accounts to analyse whether changes in the value of natural capital are driven by price, volume, cost, or time horizon effects. We apply the approach to global World Bank...

The German economy is an important economic driver in the Euro-area in terms of gross domestic product, labour force and international integration. We provide a state of the art estimate of the German output gap between 1995 and 2022 and present a nowcasting scheme that accurately predicts the...

We split up the standard momentum return over months t-12 to t-2 at the highest stock price within this formation period. Of the overall momentum profits in month t, 84% can be attributed to the return prior to this peak price although research has exclusively focused on the post-peak return so...

Model selection and model combination is a general problem in many areas. Especially, when we have several different candidate models and also have gathered a new data set, we want to construct a more accurate and precise model in order to help predict future events. In this paper, we propose a...