interventions? One way is to use survey-based welfare indicators such as the OECD Better Life Index. It invites people to weight a …

index number methods like the CPDmethod and the GEKS method are utilised for the aggregation of the price data into higher …-level indices. Although the two index number methods produce differing price level estimates when prices are missing, the present … the GEKS method. Using price data of Germany's Consumer Price Index, it can be observed that more narrowly defined …

growth accounting, different estimates of total factor productivity emerge. The methodological difference, however, does not …

change of the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP), into the aggregate price change, keeping weights constant at the … first time in 2021. This can equally be observed for France and Italy, while comparable weighting effects in Germany already …

of positive effects emerge. With respect to takeovers of German companies by foreign investors, the productivity and … international, we find positive productivity and sales effects for relatively small companies investing abroad, and this …