In some countries a Paasche price index based on unit values is compiled as a proxy for a true Paasche (or Laspeyres …) price index on the basis of prices. This is for example the case in German foreign trade statistics. Unit values are average … general reported in price statistics. Changes in unit values between two points in time, however, do not only reflect a price …

then show how this framework can be used to quantify the effects of price changes and to calculate household consumption … can correct significantly the results obtainable from a naive estimate of the effect of price changes that ignores …

, using recent data from the International Price Program. We suppose that prices are missing due to random or erratic … reporting. We consider three different imputation methods: carry-forward, which just assumes that the missing price is the same … as in the previous period; cell-mean, which imputes the missing price using either the short-term or long-term index for …

indices that correctly reflect the true price movements of IT products. This paper assesses the differences between … traditional and quality adjusted indices by providing results for PC hardware. Transaction price data for the period from 1985 to … 1994 are used to construct price indices for personal computers in Germany. The use of hedonic methods allows to correct …

these issues for three high-tech industries, namely semiconductor manufacturing, biotechnology and electronic design … automation which is a specific sub-segment of the semiconductor industry. It analyses the association of firm characteristics …

Formulating a model which summarises transportation costs, uncertainty and price, we describe how a switch to ICT …