20.07.2022 - Society & Finance

Discounting is easy, or is it?

by Philipp Immenkötter

The compound interest is the cornerstone of the financial world, but unfortunately its application causes problems. Humans are impatient, but compound interest takes a long time. Can we get by without it?

04.05.2021 - Macroeconomics

Sacrificing the economy to save lives?

by Pablo Duarte Philipp Immenkötter

The #allesdichtmachen campaign criticizes Germany's inefficient pandemic policy and its high economic costs. Have other countries been more successful in preventing deaths through lockdowns?

04.02.2021 - Companies

Pandemic and share buybacks: How do they fit together?

by Philipp Immenkötter

Despite great uncertainty and massive sales losses, German corporations carried out almost as many share buybacks in 2020 as in the previous year. At EUR 8.1 billion, the volume was only 7% lower than in the previous year.

15.10.2020 -

Second wave? All just a statistical error?

by Philipp Immenkötter

In Great Britain, politicians are currently often shown off when confronted with the false-positive rate of tests for the coronavirus. Calculations suggest that the majority of all newly infected people are not ill at all, but rather that the tests ...

12.06.2020 -

Second Wave? Choppy Water!

by Philipp Immenkötter

There is no uniform epidemiological opinion as to how the pandemic will continue in Germany. Nevertheless, there is increasing evidence that virologists do not expect a second wave-like outbreak. Rather, local outbreaks are to be expected. Germany sh ...

20.05.2020 - Society & Finance

Excess mortality - a better measure?

by Philipp Immenkötter

The excess mortality (numbers of deaths compared to previous years) provides information on the development and extent of the Covid-19 pandemic. The advantage of the approach is its independence from the authorities' survey procedures but comes with ...
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