We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price data from the German Consumer Price Index which covers the years 1998 to 2003. We strong find evidence of time- and state-dependent price adjustment. Most importantly, the...

Since Mandelbrot's seminal work (1963), alpha-stable distributions with infinite variance have been regarded as a more realistic distributional assumption than the normal distribution for some economic variables, especially financial data. After providing a brief survey of theoretical results on...

Logan et al. (1973) analyze the limit probability distribution of the statisticLogan u.a. (1973) untersuchen die Grenzwahrscheinlichkeitsverteilung der Statistik,sn(p) = Σi=1 Xi/(Σi=1 | Χj |^p)^1/p as n → ∞, für den Fall, dass Xi im Anziehungsbereich