Browsing Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften by Author "Döpke, Jörg"

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2020-10Diskussionspapier

Sharks and minnows in a shoal of words: Measuring latent ideological positions of German economic research institutes based on text mining techniques

Diaf, Sami; Döpke, Jörg; Fritsche, Ulrich; Rockenbach, Ida

Using corpora of business cycle report sections dealing with monetary and fiscal policy issues from 1999 to 2017 and using methods of unsupervised text scaling (Slapin and Proksch, 2008; Lauderdale and Herzog, 2016), ...
2017-07Diskussionspapier

Theories, techniques and the formation of German business cycle forecasts

Döpke, Jörg; Fritsche, Ulrich; Waldhof, Gaby

The paper reports results of a survey among active forecasters of the German business cycle. Relying on 82 respondents from 37 different institutions, we investigate what models and theories forecasters subscribe to and ...