Zusammenfassung Die Arbeit behandelt vor dem Hintergrund von Anforderungen an amtliche Preisindizes vor allem zwei Gegenstände: 1. die Kontroverse über den US-Verbraucherpreisindex auf Basis der kaum kritisch hinterfragten und nicht selten auch mißverstandenen „ökonomischen Theorie der...

Zusammenfassung Im ersten Teil des Beitrags wird die Ideengeschichte der Frankfurter Schule der sozialwissenschaftlichen Statistik skizziert. Im zweiten Teil erfolgt, darauf aufbauend, eine systematische Betrachtung der Rolle der Statistik im Erkenntnisprozeß der empirischen Wirtschafts- und...

This paper investigates the existence of market power and the sequentiality of games in the crude oil market. In particular, we examine whether Saudi Arabia acts as a Stackelberg leader or in a simultaneous-move framework, in a number of market power scenarios ranging from perfect competition to...

En este documento se propone un índice de precios para el mercado inmobiliario comercial de España y para los principales segmentos que lo componen. En la actualidad no existen índices de precios oficiales para estos activos, y la disponibilidad de estadísticas no oficiales es escasa y tiene...

En este documento se propone un índice de precios para el mercado inmobiliario comercial de España y para los principales segmentos que lo componen. En la actualidad no existen índices de precios oficiales para estos activos, y la disponibilidad de estadísticas no oficiales es escasa y tiene...

I report historical prices and estimate financial returns to investing in rare books. My sample consists of 25 fiction titles recommended by Clifton Fadiman in his 1960 Lifetime Reading Plan. Relying on prices realized at American and British auction houses between 1975 and 2018, I use hedonic...

This study aims at identifying guests' willingness to pay for characteristics of listings on Airbnb, putting a particular emphasis on trust-building information provided by the platform. In order to do so, a hedonic regression model is applied to an extensive dataset that was gathered in 2017...

One of the greatest challenges facing official statistics in the 21st century is the use of alternative sources of data about prices (scanned and scraped data) in the analysis of price dynamics, which also involves selecting the appropriate formula of the price index at the elementary group...

This paper examines the extent to which gains-from-trade predictions from commonly-used trade theories are consistent with observed household consumption decisions. Our approach is based on inference from household-level estimation of food Engel curves in the US and in a few other countries. For...

This paper analyzes the transmission from global commodity to domestic food prices for a large set of countries. First, a theoretical model is developed to explain price transmission for different trade regimes. Drawing from the competitive storage model under rational expectations, it is shown...