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The paper presents a general theory of the aggregation of prices and quantities that unifies the field and relates …
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For a panel data regression equation with two-way unobserved heterogeneity, individual-specific and period-specific, ‘within-individual’ and ‘within-period’ estimators, which can be given Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) or Instrumental Variables (IV) interpretations, are considered. A class...
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still remains significant at high levels of aggregation. Because the bias rises with disaggregation, findings of …
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We introduce a Divisia monetary aggregate for the euro area that accounts for the heterogeneity across member countries both, in terms of interest rates and the decomposition of monetary assets. In most of the euro area countries, the difference between the growth rates of the country-specific...
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We compile data for 186 countries (1919 - 2016) and apply different aggregation methods to create new democracy indices …. We observe that most of the available aggregation techniques produce indices that are often too favorable for autocratic …
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property of consistency in aggregation. This property, however, is indispensable for economic studies that attempt to …. The present paper introduces a thoroughly motivated formal definition of consistency in aggregation and proves that …, contrary to general perception, the three superlative price indices can be considered as consistent in aggregation. Furthermore …
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For previously identified weakly separable blockings of goods and assets, we construct aggregates using four superlative index numbers, the Fisher, Sato-Vartia, Törnqvist and Walsh, two non-superlative indexes, the Laspeyres and Paasche and the atheoretical simple summation. We conduct several...
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models used in the field of energy system analysis. Aggregation is one solution to reduce the computation time of large … and cost streams, we propose a novel aggregation method. The aggregation covers both the spatial and the technological … components on the combined technological and spatial aggregation is analyzed. …
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Current HICP measurement practices produce an upward bias of about one-ninth of a percentage point in German inflation due to changing consumption being disregarded and the preliminary data being used in the compilation of expenditure weights. The statistical uncertainty produced by these...
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equal. Some variables are observable from market data without large efforts, some are genuinely unobservable, and some can …
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