Frontmatter -- Inhalt / Contents -- Special Issue on Economic Forecasts: Guest Editorial -- Abhandlungen / Original Papers -- Information or Institution? -- Forecasting with Factor Models Estimated on Large Datasets: A Review of the Recent Literature and Evidence for German GDP -- A Factor Model for Euro-area Short-term Inflation Analysis -- Combining Survey Forecasts and Time Series Models: The Case of the Euribor -- Predictive Ability of Business Cycle Indicators under Test -- Forecasting Nonlinear Aggregates and Aggregates with Time-varying Weights -- Forecasting Multivariate Volatility using the VARFIMA Model on Realized Covariance Cholesky Factors -- Practice and Prospects of Medium-term Economic Forecasting -- Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews