Occupational Upgrading and the Business Cycle in West Germany

Occupational Mobility and the Business Cycle

Occupational Mobility and the Business Cycle Do workers sort more randomly across different job types when jobs are harder to find? To answer this question, we study the mobility of male workers among three-digit occupations in the matched files of the monthly Current Population Survey over the 1979-2004 period. We clean individual occupational transitions using the algorithm proposed by Moscar...

Business Cycle Features In The Iranian Economy

Identifying Sources of Business Cycle Fluctuations in Germany 1975 – 1998

Bank Lending Behaviour over the Business Cycle in Iran

This paper studies bank loans over the business cycles in Iran to determine the role of Iranian banks in stabilizing credit. By estimating the long-run relations using dynamic OLS and fully modified OLS estimators, the findings show that real bank lending is positively related to real GDP in the long-run providing evidences of the pro-cyclicality of bank lending in Iran. Hence, Iranian banking ...

Classification-relevant Importance Measures for the West German Business Cycle

When analyzing business cycle data, one observes that the relevant predictor variables are often highly correlated. This paper presents a method to obtain measures of importance for the classification of data in which such multicollinearity is present. In systems with highly correlated variables it is interesting to know what changes are inflicted when a certain predictor is changed by one unit...