Product Description: This book is based on the conference "EMU and the Outside World", held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), December 11, 1998. The conference was organized by the Swiss Institute for Business Cycle Research (KOF), which is supported jointly by the ETH and the Swiss Society for Business Cycle Research (SGK), an organization comprising representatives from private industry, the Swiss National Bank and public authorities...read more

Product Description: This text offers a comprehensive collection of selected papers from the 24th Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys (CIRET) conference. Areas selected include leading indicators and turning points, classifications of business cycles, survey data and policy decisions, attitudes and behaviour of firms, and economic forecasting...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 'If you give a man a fISh, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life. ' Diese alte Weisheit ist das Motto dieses Einfiihrungskurses in die Methoden der empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung. Inhaltlich entspricht der Text einer fiir a11e Studierenden der Richtung Volkswirtschaftslehre obligatorischen vierstiin digen Vorlesung mit mungen an der Hochschule St...read more

Product Description: This monograph grew out of a project which was sponsored by the Swiss National Foundation ("Schweizerischer Nationalfonds") under grant no. 4. 636-0. 83. 09. Yithin this project, prediction-oriented estimation methods for the canonical econometric disequilibrium model were developed...read more