indices that correctly reflect the true price movements of IT products. This paper assesses the differences between … traditional and quality adjusted indices by providing results for PC hardware. Transaction price data for the period from 1985 to … 1994 are used to construct price indices for personal computers in Germany. The use of hedonic methods allows to correct …

with a theorem: that asymmetric price transmission is sustained up to a certain maximum level which might include the …

Changing product quality poses a challenge for the computation of price indexes, in particular in technologically … matched-model price indexes for personal computer database software. Our database covers the price development in Germany from … capability of executing programs written for the dominant database product, yields a significant price premium. The ability to …

containing more than 23,000 price observations from the online market for contact lenses as well as detailed information about … empirical results reveal evidence for lower prices and less price dispersion among e-retailers in comparison to hybrid retailers … in retailer service. A decomposition of the price differential reveals that there may indeed be a competition effect. …

display that price, demand, and labor supply shocks affect unemployment significantly in the short/medium run. Interestingly …

a far larger extent than gross prices and that, second, noncartel members slip under the price umbrella of the cartel to …

We use publicly available price data from the German cement industry to estimate the cartelinduced price increase. We …-cartel period on the overcharge estimate. We find that the cement cartel led to price overcharges in a range from 20.3 to 26 …

an application of before-and-after approaches to estimate the price overcharge can benefit from such rich data sets. We …