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The ECB’s New Monetary Policy Strategy
The ECB updated its monetary policy strategy for the first time in 18 years in July 2021. Therein, the ECB announced that it is willing to accept a transitory period of moderate... -
Compilation of Commercial Property Price Indices for Germany Tailored for Pol...
The compilation of commercial property price indices is challenging. Policymakers urge for timely, reliable and comprehensive data. In Germany, lack of data prevents the... -
A direct measure of subjective business uncertainty
We present an uncertainty measure that is based on a business survey in which uncertainty is captured directly by a qualitative question on subjective uncertainty regarding... -
Nudging Openly - An Experimental Analysis of Nudge Transparency in a Public G...
Around the world, policy makers and public authorities are increasingly turning to behaviorally informed interventions (“nudges”) in order to help tackle important contexts of... -
A county-level database on expellees in West Germany, 1939–1961
Between 1944–1950, almost eight million expellees arrived in West Germany. We introduce a rich county-level database on the expellees’ socio-economic situation in post-war... -
Trade and the Size Distribution of Firms: Evidence from the German Empire
What effect did trade have on the size distribution of firms during the first wave of globalization? Three historical datasets from the German Empire between 1875 and 1907 were... -
Working from home, wages, and regional inequality in the light of COVID-19”
The paper uses data from the BIBB/BAuA Employment Survey of the Working Population on Qualification and Working Conditions in Germany 2018, doi: 10.7803/501.18.1.1.10. The... -
Tetradas: Tonnage estimates of trade through the Danish Sound, 1670-1856 (Rep...
Tetradas documents the main results to date of an effort to convert ‘raw’ data in the electronic database of Sound Toll Registers Online (further: STRO, www.soundtoll.nl) for... -
Shadow Banks and the Risk-Taking Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission in t...
We provide evidence for a risk-taking channel of monetary policy transmission in the euro area that works through an increase in shadow banks' total asset growth and their risk... -
Lifetime Cost of Living and Effective Prices: Theory and Evidence for Germany...
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Ten years of daily stock prices on seven major Prussian railways (1875–1884):...
We present a dataset on daily spot and forward prices of seven major Prussian railway companies’ stock as traded at Berlin Stock Exchange between 1875 and 1884. In late 1879,... -
Putting European Monetary Integration into a Historical Perspective - Replica...
This dataset provides the files required to reproduce the empirical part of Fendel/Frenkel, Putting European Monetary Integration into a Historical Perspective: Two Decades of... -
(Since When) Are East and West German Business Cycles Synchronised? - replica...
We analyze whether, and since when, East and West German business cycles are synchronised. We investigate real GDP, unemployment rates and survey data as business cycle... -
Sample size calculation in economic experiments
Clinical studies and economic experiments are often conducted with randomized controlled trials. In clinical studies, power calculations are carried out as a standard. But... -
Ein neuer langer Verbraucherpreisindex für Österreich, 1800–2018 (replication...
Indices of the development of consumer prices in Vienna or Austria date back to the year 1800. The corresponding article presents the first systematically documented and chained... -
Early prediction of university dropouts - a random forest approach
We predict university dropout using random forests based on conditional inference trees and on a broad German data set covering a wide range of aspects of student life and study... -
Replication code for "How repayments manipulate our perceptions about loan dy...
Algorithm to estimate loan origination based on Adalid and Falagiarda (2019), "How repayments manipulate our perceptions about loan dynamics after a boom", Journal of Economics... -
Taking stock of the EU Fiscal rules over the past 20 years and options for re...
This paper reviews how the European Union’s fiscal rules have developed from the Maastricht Treaty that established the single monetary policy up until today. It shows that the... -
Country-Specific Euro Area Government Bond Yield Reactions to ECB's Non-Stand...
This paper employs event study methods to evaluate the effects of ECB's non-standard monetary policy program announcements on 10-year government bond yields of 11 euro area... -
Real and Financial cycles in euro area economies: results from wavelet analys...
Data set and Matlab codes to accompany M. Scharnagl and M. Mandler, "Real and Financial cycles in euro area economies: results from wavelet analysis", Journal of Economics and...
