techniques can help to improve the nowcast of monthly German inflation in real time. Our nowcasting exercise targets three … the lowest aggregation level underlying official German inflation, such as those of butter and coffee beans. We show that … demonstrate that these scanner-based price indices improve inflation nowcasts at this very narrow level, notably already after the …

with problems of measuring inflation in Gerrnany. This paper met with a lively response. The Research Group of the …

explain the persistence of inflation. However, both of these theories are inconsistent with the micro data on prices. In this … difference between the GTE and its popular alternatives in terms of inflation persistence, a difference arises when it comes to …