Regional inequality, convergence, and its determinants–A view from outer space

C Lessmann, A Seidel - European Economic Review, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper provides a new dataset of regional income inequalities within countries based on
satellite nighttime light data. First, we empirically study the relationship between luminosity …

The forecasting power of the ifo business survey

R Lehmann - Journal of Business Cycle Research, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The ifo Institute is Germany's largest business survey provider, with the ifo Business
Climate Germany as one of the most important leading indicators for gross domestic product …

Forecasting GDP all over the world using leading indicators based on comprehensive survey data

J Garnitz, R Lehmann, K Wohlrabe - Applied Economics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Comprehensive and international comparable leading indicators across countries and
continents are rare. In this paper, we use a free and instantaneous available source of …

A new W-SVM kernel combining PSO-neural network transformed vector and Bayesian optimized SVM in GDP forecasting

GN Kouziokas - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2020 - Elsevier
Considering that in the literature there is a very limited number of studies proposing new
SVM kernels especially in regression problems, the scope of this research is to investigate …

The relationship of economic sentiment and GDP growth in Russia in light of the Covid-19 crisis

L Kitrar - Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 2021 - ceeol.com
Objective: The objective of the article is to prove the empirical and predictive value of the
aggregate opinions of businesses and households for expanding cyclical macroeconomic …

[BOOK][B] Handbook of ifo Surveys

S Sauer, M Schasching, K Wohlrabe - 2023 - econstor.eu
As one of the main pillars of the ifo Institute's economic research, the ifo Business Survey
has been conducted monthly since 1949, a year after the foundation of the ifo Institute. Since …

[BOOK][B] ifo Handbuch der Konjunkturumfragen

S Sauer, K Wohlrabe - 2020 - econstor.eu
Das vorliegende Handbuch soll einen Überblick über die Befragungen des ifo Instituts
sowie die daraus resultierenden Konjunkturindikatoren und deren Verwendung für die …

Estimating Local Agricultural GDP across the World

Y Ru, B Blankespoor, U Wood-Sichra… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Economic statistics are frequently produced at an administrative level such as the sub-
national division. However, these measures may lack sufficient local variation in the …

Forecasting Baden‐Württemberg's GDP growth: MIDAS regressions versus dynamic mixed‐frequency factor models

K Kuck, K Schweikert - Journal of Forecasting, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Germany's economic composition is heterogenous across regions, which makes regional
economic projections based on German gross domestic product (GDP) growth unreliable. In …

Nowcasting East German GDP growth: a MIDAS approach

JC Claudio, K Heinisch, O Holtemöller - Empirical Economics, 2020 - Springer
Economic forecasts are an important element of rational economic policy both on the federal
and on the local or regional level. Solid budgetary plans for government expenditures and …