This thesis is a collection of papers that use survey data to analyze expectations about macroeconomic variables and the way these expectations are formed. Using a new approach for modeling forecast errors in a structural way, we show that most of the individual forecasts in the Consensus survey data set have fairly good properties with respect to unbiasedness and efficiency. We provide empirical evidence in favor of partial equilibrium models of the sticky information type that explain the development of inflation dynamics and the formation process of inflation expectations of households respectively. We show that there is a dichotomy between disagreement about real variables, which is more strongly affected by real factors, and disagreemen...
This dissertation addresses two different kinds of agents, professional forecasters and manufacturin...
This paper contributes to the debate on the role of money in monetary policy by analyzing the infor...
We analyze the determinants of average individual inflation uncertainty and disagreement based on da...
Paper 1 (Chapter 2): We investigate the question of whether macroeconomic variables contain informat...
This thesis consists of three chapters in empirical macroeconomics. In particular it treats importan...
Empirical study of causality between inflation, inflation uncertainty and other macroeconomicy qua...
Based on a panel of German professional forecasts for 1970 to 2002 we find that growth and inflation...
This master thesis addresses the forecast accuracy of individual inflation forecasts from the Survey...
The paper analyses the reasons for departures from strong rationality of German business cycle forec...
In this doctoral thesis consisting of four thematically linked essays, the informational and politic...
This dissertation contains five research papers in the area of applied econometrics. The two broad t...
This thesis presents five essays that compare rational-inattentiveness models and sticky-informatio...
In this paper, the interaction between inflation and monetary policy rules is analysed within the fr...
This dissertation introduces in chapter 1 a new comparative approach to model-based research and pol...
Résumé: Output, inflation and interest rates are key macroeconomic variables, in particular for mone...
This dissertation addresses two different kinds of agents, professional forecasters and manufacturin...
This paper contributes to the debate on the role of money in monetary policy by analyzing the infor...
We analyze the determinants of average individual inflation uncertainty and disagreement based on da...
Paper 1 (Chapter 2): We investigate the question of whether macroeconomic variables contain informat...
This thesis consists of three chapters in empirical macroeconomics. In particular it treats importan...
Empirical study of causality between inflation, inflation uncertainty and other macroeconomicy qua...
Based on a panel of German professional forecasts for 1970 to 2002 we find that growth and inflation...
This master thesis addresses the forecast accuracy of individual inflation forecasts from the Survey...
The paper analyses the reasons for departures from strong rationality of German business cycle forec...
In this doctoral thesis consisting of four thematically linked essays, the informational and politic...
This dissertation contains five research papers in the area of applied econometrics. The two broad t...
This thesis presents five essays that compare rational-inattentiveness models and sticky-informatio...
In this paper, the interaction between inflation and monetary policy rules is analysed within the fr...
This dissertation introduces in chapter 1 a new comparative approach to model-based research and pol...
Résumé: Output, inflation and interest rates are key macroeconomic variables, in particular for mone...
This dissertation addresses two different kinds of agents, professional forecasters and manufacturin...
This paper contributes to the debate on the role of money in monetary policy by analyzing the infor...
We analyze the determinants of average individual inflation uncertainty and disagreement based on da...