1994 are used to construct price indices for personal computers in Germany. The use of hedonic methods allows to correct … Inflation wird zu hoch ausgewiesen. Bei der Analyse der Preisentwicklung für PCs in Deutschland (bezogen auf den Direktmarkt … indices that correctly reflect the true price movements of IT products. This paper assesses the differences between …

’s disadvantages, a combination that provides flexibility in resource allocation. -- Innovation Performance ; Resource Allocation …

activities by facilitating more flexible organisational structures in firms. We distinguish between functional flexibility (the … ability of workers to co-operate and take decentralised decisions) and numerical flexibility (the reduction of fixed costs …, mainly due to outsourcing business processes). Our results from a large and representative data set of firms in Germany show …

an application of before-and-after approaches to estimate the price overcharge can benefit from such rich data sets. We …

We use publicly available price data from the German cement industry to estimate the cartelinduced price increase. We …-cartel period on the overcharge estimate. We find that the cement cartel led to price overcharges in a range from 20.3 to 26 …

a far larger extent than gross prices and that, second, noncartel members slip under the price umbrella of the cartel to …

with a theorem: that asymmetric price transmission is sustained up to a certain maximum level which might include the …

This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step … display that price, demand, and labor supply shocks affect unemployment significantly in the short/medium run. Interestingly …