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Zur Diskussion über den Verbraucherpreisindex als Inflationsindikator : Beiträge zu einem Workshop in der Deutschen Bundesbank
1999
with problems of measuring inflation in Gerrnany. This paper met with a lively response. The Research Group of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470805
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Has the export pricing behaviour of German enterprises changed? Empirical evidence from German sectoral prices
Stahn, Kerstin - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2006
The question as to whether the globalisation-related increase in competitive pressure may have caused the importance of exchange rate pass-through and pricing-to-market for export pricing in Germany to shift since the 1990s is addressed by testing the long-run export pricing behaviour of German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083076
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Changes in import pricing behaviour: the case of Germany
Stahn, Kerstin - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2009
Since changes in import prices feed into consumer prices and thus might affect monetary policy decisions, policymakers need to establish whether or not German importers' long-run pricing behaviour has changed. Of particular interest are any shifts in the importance of cost passthrough and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083109
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Transmission of nominal exchange rate changes to export prices and trade flows and implications for exchange rate policy
Hoffmann, Mathias; Holtemöller, Oliver - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2009
We discuss how the welfare ranking of fixed and flexible exchange rate regimes in a New Open Economy Macroeconomics model depends on the interplay between the degree of exchange rate pass-through and the elasticity of substitution between home and foreign goods. We identify combinations of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059025
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Zur Diskussion über den Verbraucherpreisindex als Inflationsindikator: Beiträge zu einem Workshop in der Deutschen Bundesbank
1999
with problems of measuring inflation in Gerrnany. This paper met with a lively response. The Research Group of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478854
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Consumer price adjustment under the microscope: Germany in a period of low inflation
Hoffmann, Johannes; Kurz-Kim, Jeong-Ryeol - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2006
We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083071
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A rental-equivalence index for owner-occupied housing in West Germany 1985 to 1998
Kurz, Claudia; Hoffmann, Johannes - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2004
In this paper, we review the German practice of imputing the costs of owner-occupied housing by increasing the relative weight of actual rents in the CPI. As the structure of owner-occupied housing differs substantially from that of rental housing, this variant of the imputation method may cause...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083156
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Rent indices for housing in West Germany 1985 to 1998
Hoffmann, Johannes; Kurz, Claudia - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2002
In several studies, hedonic methods have been used successfully for the ex post assessment of the accuracy of inflation … might induce a substantial distortion in overall inflation measurement. On the basis of data from the German Socio … is some evidence of an understatement of rent inflation in the official rent index for West Germany at the beginning of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083285