Voters' participation is considered fundamental in an electoral process. Yet almost half the countries in the world have voter turnouts of (60-79) percent. To be able to predict and influences voters' behavior, political parties and political consultants need to identify determinants of voters'...

The dominant media ideology argues that the successful application of social media engagement in commercial marketing has the potential to influence customers buying decisions by X percentage. This can equally play a pivotal role in voters' voting decisions. Political marketing research scholars...

Published findings of opinion polls are an important part of the political coverage before elections. Thus, researchers have long investigated whether the perceived popularity of political parties can lead to even more voters following this majority. However, empirical findings on this so-called...

Augmenting survey data with digital traces is a promising direction for combining the advantages of active and passive data collection. However, extracting interpretable measurements from digital traces for social science research is challenging. In this study, we demonstrate how to obtain...

Following geographically concentrated changes in housing markets, real estate prices have skyrocketed in many cities and metropolitan areas across Germany. These developments have not only shifted the macro-level distribution of asset wealth among homeowners but have also resulted in price...

Monitoring property price dynamics is a necessary task for central banks in order to maintain financial stability in the economy. Big data offers potential as a new source of data that might be used to produce official statistics on property. In this paper, we develop an alternative residential...

The COVID-19 crisis had a major impact on the measurement of inflation around the world, as price observation in shops became impossible and some markets completely closed down. This article looks at the measures taken during the crisis in 2020 to ensure the continued compilation of the European...

This paper reviews the main properties of mixed-form (price) indices, in other words, chained indices which in real time behave as direct (fixed-base) indices. The European Union HICP is used as demonstration material.

Hedonic regressions are used for residential property price index (RPPI) measurement to control for changes in the quality-mix of properties transacted. This paper consolidates the confusing array of existing approaches and methods of implementation. It further develops an innovative form of...

Choice experiments show that individuals attribute significant value to digitally-enabled services such as social media. We integrate this consumer value into an accounting framework by treating it as the value of own-account production by households of a particular type of leisure services....