This thesis explores whether scanner data can be used to inform Consumer Price Index (CPI) construction, with … using scanner data are reviewed. Existing estimates of substitution bias are found to show considerable variation ….An Australian scanner data set is used to estimate substitution bias for six different aggregation methods and for fixed base and …

This book deals with the currently most relevant topics in price index numbers theory and practice. The problem of the … international comparisons of macroeconomic aggregates, a re-consideration of index numbers theory, the measurement of production in …

agricultural and food policies. We analyze intertemporal pricing of grocery retailers in Germany with a large set of scanner data …

intertemporally. Sales, e.g., can be consistent with optimalintertemporal pricing.2. Scanner data for German food retailers in the …

difference-in-differences and synthetic con-trol method approach, we analyze weekly store-level scanner data for microwave …

The main aim of this thesis is to analyse the reactions caused by index replacements in the German benchmark stock …-indices DAX, MDAX and HDAX. Usually financial theory suggests that the fact of an index replacement contains no new valuation …-relevant evidence. However the financial press frequently speculates about index replacements and the consequences on the underlying …