In this paper, we seek to produce forecasts of commodity price movements that can systematically improve on naïve statistical benchmarks. We revisit how well changes in commodity currencies perform as potential efficient predictors of commodity prices, a view emphasized in the recent...

This paper documents the patterns and determinants of price setting in the Belgian industry. We analyse the micro data underlying the Producer Price Index (PPI) over the period from February 2001 to January 2005. On average only one out of four prices changes in a typical month, whereas the...

[...]Like the other countries examined, the United Kingdomadopted inflation targets after a successful disinflation.Unlike these countries, however, the UnitedKingdom took this step in the aftermath of a foreignexchange rate crisis in order to restore a nominalanchor and to lock in past...

Im Zuge der mit der Marktbeobachtung einhergehenden statistischen Datenaufbereitungdiskutiert die Bundesnetzagentur seit einiger Zeit mit den Eisenbahnunternehmendie Entwicklung der realen Eisenbahninfrastrukturkosten sowie mögliche Varianten einesgeeigneten Inputpreisindex. Ein solcher Index...

This paper explores the statistical properties of household consumption-expenditurebudget share distributions —defined as the share of household total expenditure spentfor purchasing a specific category of commodities— for a large sample of Italianhouseholds in the period 1989-2004. We find...

Market frictions inhibit perfect replication of property derivatives and dene the property spreadas a price measure in the incomplete real estate market. We identify transaction costs, transactiontime and short sale constraints as the main frictions in this market. Based on these frictions,...

Living standard indicators are complex nonlinear statistics based on fundamen-tal components (income or consumption data, prices, household characteristics andenvironment). The statistical distributions of these components, which are oftenincompletely obseved, are central to study utilitarian...

Verglichen mit Wohnimmobilien stehen Gewerbeimmobilien weniger im Fokus der Öffentlichkeit und der Politik. Trotzdem besitzen sie eine hohe volkswirtschaftliche Relevanz. Aufgrund fehlender Datenquellen ist der Markt jedoch intransparent. Das Internetportal ImmobilienScout24 stellt vor diesem...