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News media versus FRED‐MD for macroeconomic forecasting (replication data)
Using a unique dataset of 22.5 million news articles from the Dow Jones Newswires Archive, we perform an in depth real-time out-of-sample forecasting comparison study with one... -
Are there no wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany? A reassessment ...
This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3),... -
Uncertainty and monetary policy in good and bad times: A replication of the v...
This paper revisits the well-known vector autoregressive (VAR) evidence on the real effects of uncertainty shocks by Bloom (2009, https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA6248). We replicate... -
Bootstrap inference and diagnostics in state space models: With applications ...
This paper investigates the potentials of the bootstrap as a tool for inference on the parameters of macroeconometric models which admit a state space representation. We... -
Cyclical labour income risk in Great Britain (replication data)
This paper provides new evidence on the cyclical behaviour of household labour income risk in Great Britain and the role of social insurance policy in mitigating against this... -
Uncertain Kingdom: Nowcasting Gross Domestic Product and its revisions (repli...
We propose a release-augmented dynamic factor model (RA-DFM) that allows to quantify the role of a country's data flow in nowcasting both early Gross Domestic Product (GDP)... -
Team performance and the perception of being observed: experimental evidence ...
We exploit the natural experimental setting provided by the Covid-19 lockdown to analyse how performance is affected by a friendly audience. Specifically, we use data on all... -
An EU harmonised net wealth tax
These are the data refering to the revised article "A European Net Wealth Tax", submitted by Margit Schratzenstaller (and Aleander Krenek) on August, 31st 2022. -
A tripolar model of gas price formation in Germany. Does the shale revolution...
The data set includes 204 monthly observations starting from Jan 2005. The file: variables.txt contains 10 variables used for the analysis. All variables are denoted in natural... -
Thinning out Spectators: Did Football Matches Contribute to the Second COVID-...
The COVID-19 pandemic has decelerated substantial parts of economic and human interaction. This paper estimates football matches’ contribution to the spread of COVID-19 during...