Housing rents are one of the most important and difficult elements of spatial cost of living comparisons. Difficulties arise from the lack of sufficiently detailed and harmonized data, especially at the international level. The emergence of Airbnb has created a valuable new source of...

Inflation is the percentage change in the CPI over a given period of time. It is usually calculated over a year (year-on-year inflation) and over a month (month-to-month inflation). Even if prices are not currently rising from month to month, the year-to-year inflation rate could still be...

Consumers access foreign goods by purchasing them domestically or shopping abroad. We present new facts on cross-border shopping by Swiss households showing, for example, that prices of identical products are lower in neighboring countries, cross-border shopping shares fall with distance to the...

Consumers access foreign goods by purchasing them domestically or shopping abroad. We present new facts on cross-border shopping by Swiss households showing, for example, that prices of identical products are lower in neighboring countries, cross-border shopping shares fall with distance to the...

The cost of living has shown a gradual upward trend in recent years, which has seriously impacted the quality of life and well-being of residents. This study empirically examines the impact of the digital economy on residents' cost of living and the mechanisms behind it by measuring the digital...