We characterize the dispersion of grocery prices in France based on a large original data set of prices in more than 1500 supermarkets. On average across products, the 90th percentile of relative prices is 17 percentage points higher than the 10th and the mean absolute deviation from quarterly...

In der vorliegenden Forschungsarbeit wird schrittweise ein Prognosemodell entwickelt, welches die Ermittlung des Vertriebspotenzials von drei Produktinnovationen eines mittelständischen Automobilzulieferers bei Vermarktung dieser über eine Bundlingstrategie auf dem deutschen Markt ermöglicht....

Hausman (2003) discusses four sources of bias in the present calculation of the CPI. A pure price' index based approach of surveying prices as done by the BLS cannot succeed in solving the problems of bias. We discuss economic and econometric approaches to measuring the first order bias effects...

Hausman (2003) discusses four sources of bias in the present calculation of the CPI. A pure price' index based approach of surveying prices as done by the BLS cannot succeed in solving the problems of bias. We discuss economic and econometric approaches to measuring the first order bias effects...