-homothetic case, these indexes are superior both to Fisher s ideal index and to the consumer surplus approximation. …

exogenous value-added tax reform in Germany, I use an event study and a differences-in-differences approach to investigate the …

concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …

and services. We combine the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices with indices for asset prices, such as stocks and real … estate, as well as the costs of public goods to develop alternative inflation measures in Germany since the introduction of …

confiates CPI bias with variation in cost-of-living across income levels. Assuming a single price index across the income …

In this paper, we propose a novel index for measuring intra-generational redistribution in pay-as-you-go pension … schemes. Our index solely requires information on contributions and pension benefits of retirees, enabling us to measure intra … predictions of our index. The reform introduced additional benefits for a subgroup of substantial size of German mothers, due to …

We develop a programming algorithm that predicts a balanced-panel mix-adjusted house price index for arbitrary spatial … creation of comparable neighborhood-level qualified rent indices (Mietspiegel) across Germany. …