Breuer, Claus C.; von der Lippe, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The aim of our paper is to discuss the problems of operationalizing the concept of a .cost-of-living-index. (COLI). For this purpose we are first undertaking a theoretical analysis of Diewert’s theory of superlative index numbers as one possible approach to approximate a COLI. We show that...