If we intend to support sustainability in the financial markets, research and analysis must come first. In the last 30 years, the groundwork has been laid by the Ethical Environmental Research Group (Forschungsgruppe Ethisch-Ökologisches Rating) leading to a rating system for Impact Investing....

In this paper, we review the German practice of imputing the costs of owner-occupied housing by increasing the relative weight of actual rents in the CPI. As the structure of owner-occupied housing differs substantially from that of rental housing, this variant of the imputation method may cause...

In several studies, hedonic methods have been used successfully for the ex post assessment of the accuracy of inflation measurement. Most of those studies relate to high-tech products, with respect to which traditional methods of compiling price indices often fail. We apply hedonic methods to...