The output of the quantification project is available as working papers conference talks and as regular updates of Swiss GDP nowcastings.

2010-11-15: Eva Koeberl and Sarah Lein receive the 2010 Young Economist "Isaac Kerstenetzky Award" for their outstanding paper The NIRCU and the Phillips curve

2009-06-27: The SSES Young Economist Award goes to sarah Lein and Eva Köberl (the pillars of the project Quantification of qualitative data) for their paper: The Capacity Utilisation, Constraints and price Adjustments under the Microscope - Congratulations!!

On March 10, 2009 the SSRN repository has recognised our latest working paper Business Cycle Measurement with Semantic Filtering to rank among the ten most popular in the category DCDEM (Collecting, estimating & organizing microeconomic data).

In September 2008 the SSRN repository has recognised three of our working papers (A note on Carlson Parkin, Speed of adjustment, What did you say?) as one of the all-time hits (top ten most frequently downloaded papers) in the fields Journal of Econometrics: Data collection and data estimation methodology; Journal of Econometrics: Econometric and statistical methods - Special topics; Journal of DCDEM: Collecting, estimating and organizing microeconomic data; Journal of MEM: Panel data models; Journal of ESMST: Survey methods.

Publications

Topic
 
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Author(s)
You CAN Carlson-Parkin   Economics Letters   Christian Müller
         
The information Content of Qualitative Survey Data   JBMCA   Christian Müller
         
Is the New Keynesian Phillips Curve Nonlinear?   mimeo   Sarah Lein , Eva Köberl
         
Business Cycle Measurement with Semantic Filtering: A Micro Data Analysis.  
KOF WP 212
  Christian Müller, Eva Köberl
         
The NAICU and the Phillips curve - An Approach Based on Micro Data  
KOF WP 211
  Eva Köberl, Sarah Lein
         
GDP forecast for Switzerland.  
Current release
  Christian Müller, Eva Köberl
         
The Speed of Adjustment to Demand Shocks: A Markov-chain Measurement Using Micro Panel Data  
KOF WP 170
  Christian Müller, Eva Köberl
         
Comparing qualitative and quantitative survey data  
KOF WP 169
  Rolf Schenker
         
A Note on the Carlson-Parkin Method of Quantifying Qualitative Data  
KOF WP 168
  Christian Müller, Aniela Wirz and Nora Sydow
         
When Do Firms Adjust Prices? Evidence from Micro Panel Data  
KOF WP 160
  Sarah Rupprecht

 

Conference presentations

Conference
 
Presenter
 
Title
 
Hyperlink
2009            
EEA congress 2009, Barcelona, August 23-27, 2009.   Sarah Lein   Is the New Keynesian Phillips Curve Nonlinear?  
mimeo
             
Annual SGVS Congress 2009, Geneva, June 26-27, 2009.   Sarah Lein   The Capacity Utilisation, Constraints and price Adjustments under the Microscope  
mimeo
             
University of California Riverside conference on Business Cylces: Theoretical and Practical Advances, April 9-11, 2009.
  Eva Köberl   A new business cycle indicator based on semantic identification approach  
Current release
             
University of California Riverside conference on Business Cylces: Theoretical and Practical Advances, April 9-11, 2009.
  Christian Müller   The Speed of Adjustment to Demand Shocks: A Markov-chain Measurement Using Micro Panel Data  
KOF WP 170
             
ifo-INSEE-ISAE 1st macroeconomic forecasting conference, March 27, 2009.
  Eva Köberl   A new business cycle indicator based on semantic identification approach  
Current release
             
2008            
3rd ifo workshop on macro economics and business cycle analysis: Dresden November 20/21, 2008.   Eva Köberl   The NAICU and the Phillips curve - An approach based on Micro Data  
KOF WP 211
Joint KOF / ifo / WIFO workshop on Micro data analysis, November 14 2008, Zurich.   Eva Köberl, Sarah Lein, and Rolf Schenker   various  

KOF WP 211KOF WP 160KOF WP 169

CIRET Conference, Business Tendency Surveys and Policy Formulation, Santiago de Chile, October 8-11, 2008.
  Eva Köberl   A new business cycle indicator based on semantic identification approach  
Current release
CIRET Conference, Business Tendency Surveys and Policy Forumaltion, Santiago de Chile, October 8-11, 2008.
  Christian Müller   A Note on the Carlson-Parkin Method of Quantifying Qualitative Data  
KOF WP 168
EEA annual meeting, Milan, August.
  Sarah Lein   When Do Firms Adjust Prices? Evidence from Micro Panel Data  
KOF WP 160
Astute Modelling Seminar, ETH Zurich
  Rolf Schenker   Comparing qualitative and quantitative survey data  
KOF WP 169
Astute Modelling Seminar, ETH Zurich, May
  Eva Köberl   The Speed of Adjustment to Demand Shocks: A Markov-chain Measurement Using Micro Panel Data  
KOF WP 170
Macroeconomic Research Meeting, University Bonn, May
  Sarah Lein   The Relationship between Capacities and Prices at the Micro Level-Some Evidence for Swiss Firms  
mimeo
Macroeconomics Seminar, University Zurich, April
  Sarah Lein   When Do Firms Adjust Prices? Evidence from Micro Panel Data  
KOF WP 160
Spring meeting of young economists, Lille, April
  Sarah Lein   When Do Firms Adjust Prices? Evidence from Micro Panel Data  
KOF WP 160
Spring meeting of young economists, Lille, April
  Eva Köberl   The Speed of Adjustment to Demand Shocks: A Markov-chain Measurement Using Micro Panel Data  
KOF WP 170
SSES Annual Meeting, Lausanne, March
  Eva Köberl   The Speed of Adjustment to Demand Shocks: A Markov-chain Measurement Using Micro Panel Data  
KOF WP 170
Swiss young economists meeting, Bern, January
  Sarah Lein   When Do Firms Adjust Prices? Evidence from Micro Panel Data  
KOF WP 160
INFER workshop, Characterisitcs of buisness cycles: Have they changed?, Brussels, January.
  Eva Köberl   A new business cycle indicator based on semantic identification approach  
Current release
           
2007
           
Statistische Woche: Meeting of the German statistical society, Kiel.
 
Eva Köberl, Rolf Schenker, Christian Müller
  various    
Royal Economic Society annual meeting, Warwick
 
Sarah Lein
  When Do Firms Adjust Prices? Evidence from Micro Panel Data  
INFER annual meeting, Loughborough
  Eva Köberl, Rolf Schenker, Christian Müller   various    
IfO workshop on Micro Panel data Analysis, Munich
  Eva Köberl, Rolf Schenker, Sarah Lein, Christian Müller   various  
Brown Bag Seminar, University of Bern
  Rolf Schenker   Comparing qualitative and quantitative survey data  
KOF WP 169
German economic association, Munich
  Sarah Lein   When Do Firms Adjust Prices? Evidence from Micro Panel Data  
KOF WP 160

 

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