Die offiziellen Meldungen des Statistischen Bundesamtes zur Entwicklung der Verbraucherpreise 2007 bestätigten den Eindruck vieler Konsumenten, dass sich der Anstieg der Preise für die Lebenshaltung in letzter Zeit beschleunigt hat. Die ausgewiesene Jahresteuerungsrate von 2,3% entspricht dem...

According to household production function theory households combine marketed goods and nonmarket environmental goods to produce service flows of direct value to the household. This readily explains why, as an input to household production activities, households might have preferences over the...

The education export industry is an important and growing sector of the economy. This study examines the foreign exchange contribution of international students (the largest component of this sector) to the New Zealand economy and provides a base from which work can be extended to assess the...

The prices of commodities produced in Canada have important implications for the performance of the Canadian economy and the conduct of monetary policy. The authors explain an important change to the methodology used to construct the Bank of Canada commodity price index (BCPI). Since its...