Who do you trust while bubbles grow and blow? A comparative analysis of the explanatory power of accounting and patent information for the market values of German firms Fred Ramb, Markus Reitzig

On the decision to go public: Evidence from privately-held firms Ekkehart Boehmer, Alexander Ljungqvist

Welfare Implications of the Design of a Currency Union in Case of Member Countries of Different Sizes and Output Persistence Rainer Frey

Real-Time Estimation of the Output Gap in Japan and its Usefulness for Inflation Forecasting and Policymaking Koichiro Kamada

Consumption Smoothing Across States and Time: International Insurance vs. Foreign Loans George M.von Furstenberg

Business Cycle Transmission from the US to Germany - a Structural Factor Approach Sandra Eickmeier

Real-time data business cycle analysis in Germany Jörg Döpke

The inventory cycle of the German economy Thomas A. Knetsch

Evaluating the German inventory cycle using data from the IFO business survey Thomas A. Knetsch

A rental-equivalence index for owner-occupied housing in West-Germany 1985 to 1998 Claudia Kurz, Johannes Hoffmann