estate, as well as the costs of public goods to develop alternative inflation measures in Germany since the introduction of … the euro. Real economic growth as well as median wage developments are reexamined in light of the alternative inflation …

aggregate inflation and the higher-order moments of the distribution of relative price changes. Our empirical findings confirm … explanatory variable for the inflation rate. Further, the skewness measure also helps to explain shifts in the Phillips curve …

Carlo experiments, where we also study the estimation of the aggregate effects of micro and macro shocks. The paper … concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to … which "observed" inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our …

Carlo experiments, where we also study the estimation of the aggregate effects of micro and macro shocks. The paper … concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to … which ﾑobservedﾒ inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our …

Carlo experiments, where we also study the estimation of the aggregate effects of micro and macro shocks. The paper … concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to … which ‘observed' inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our …

Carlo experiments, where we also study the estimation of the aggregate effects of micro and macro shocks. The paper … concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to … which "observed" inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our …

-dependence; for periods of relatively high and volatile inflation not only the size of price changes (intensive margin) but also the … fraction of price adjustment (extensive margin) is important for aggregate inflation dynamics. Moreover, at the business cycle … frequency, variations in the extensive margin explain a large fraction of inflation variability even for moderate inflation …