Current HICP measurement practices produce an upward bias of about one-ninth of a percentage point in German inflation …

desirability. By ignoring the heaping process a severe bias in terms of spikes and bumps is introduced when applying kernel density …

stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors’ local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead … also determines their international investment decisions. Our results confirm the presence of a cross-border local bias … display a significantly lower foreign investment bias towards investment opportunities in that country and (ii) that this drop …

to panel attrition, which are thought to worsen the bias resulting from initial nonresponse. However, under certain … conditions an initial wave nonresponse bias may vanish in later panel waves. We study such a "Fade away" of an initial … nonresponse bias in the context of regression analysis. By using a time series approach for the covariate and the error terms we …

supply, earnings and welfare over the life cycle. The bias increases part-time employment strongly, induces flatter long … joint taxation. The most significant impact of the bias appears for college-educated women. …