International macroeconomics, monetary policy, financial markets, applied macroeconometrics, expectation formation.
Publications
Eickmeier, S. and B. Hofmann (2011), Monetary policy, housing booms, and financial (im)balances, Macroeconomic Dynamics, forthcoming.
Breitung, J. and S. Eickmeier (2011), Testing for
structural breaks in dynamic factor models, Journal of Econometrics,
163(1), 71-84.
Eickmeier, S. (2010), Analyse der Übertragung
US-amerikanischer Schocks auf Deutschland auf Basis eines FAVAR (english
title: A FAVAR-based analysis of the transmission of US shocks to Germany), Jahrbücher
für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (Journal of Economics and
Statistics),
230(5), 571-600.
Eickmeier, S. and T. Ng (2010), Forecasting national
activity using lots of international predictors: an application to New Zealand, International
Journal of Forecasting, 27(29), 496-511.
Eickmeier, S. (2009), Comovements and heterogeneity
in the euro area analyzed in a non-stationary dynamic factor model, Journal
of Applied Econometrics, 24(6), 933-959.
Eickmeier, S., B. Hofmann and A. Worms (2009), Macroeconomic
fluctuations and bank lending: evidence for Germany and the euro area, German
Economic Review, 10(2), 193-223.
Eickmeier, S. and C. Ziegler (2008), How successful
are dynamic factor models at forecasting output and inflation? A meta-analytic
approach, Journal of Forecasting, 27(3), 237-265.
Eickmeier, S. (2007), Business cycle transmission from
the US to Germany – a structural factor approach, European Economic
Review, 51(3), 521-551
Eickmeier, S. and J. Breitung (2006), How synchronized
are new EU member states with the euro area? Evidence from a structural
factor model, Journal of Comparative Economics, 34, 538-563
Breitung, J. and S. Eickmeier (2006), Dynamic
factor models,
Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv (Journal of the German Statistical Society),
90, 27-42