The unit value index (UVI) as compiled in Germany for exports and imports is compared with two other indices, viz. an index of Drobisch which unfortunately is likewise known as 'unit value index' and the 'normal' Laspeyres price index (PI) of exports and imports. The UVI may be viewed as a...

Summary With Laspeyres, Paasche and other authors such as Drobisch and Lehr, Germany made quite a promising start in index theory in the last decades of the 19 th century. However, it soon lost ground after this period, which is described in this paper. The focus is not on biographies but on...

Summary The Bavarian Ministry of Economics published a comparison between price and income levels of various municipalities of Bavaria based on the current monthly statistics of consumer prices. This widely disseminated official publication gained much attention and served to plead a cause in...

Summary German economists as for example Laspeyres and Paasche made remarkable contributions to index theory in the 19 th and early 20 th century. Typical for the German school was the idea of “pure price comparison” and the emphasis on a verbal interpretation of index formulas. However, it...

Der Beitrag ist eine Fortführung des IBES Diskussionsbeitrags Nr. 191 'Standardisierung der Einnahmen einer Arztpraxis, Methoden der Honorarumrechnung auf Einnahmen einer 'Normpraxis', die ausschließlich EBM-Leistungen (für GKV Patienten) in Vollzeit erbringt'. Dort wurde eine...

Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag berichtet über die Ergebnisse eines Gutachtens, das der Verfasser im Herbst 1993 für die Enquete Kommission „Aufarbeitung von Geschichte und Folgen der SED-Diktatur in Deutschland“ des Deutschen Bundestages geschrieben hatte. Mit bisher nicht zugänglichen Akten...