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...

Inflation rates of more than 3% in Germany during some months in the spring and summer of 2008 have been giving rise to claims from both politicians and the unions for social measures for welfare recipients. It is argued that the burden of inflation is heterogeneously distributed among different...

Als die Inflationsraten in Deutschland Mitte 2008 relativ hoch waren, wurde die vermeintlich starke Belastung unterer Einkommensschichten durch die Teuerung öffentlich diskutiert. Dagegen kommen Claus Christian Breuer und Jens Mehrhoff in ihrer detaillierten empirischen Analyse zu dem Ergebnis,...