This book deals with the currently most relevant topics in price index numbers theory and practice. The problem of the … international comparisons of macroeconomic aggregates, a re-consideration of index numbers theory, the measurement of production in …

-indices DAX, MDAX and HDAX. Usually financial theory suggests that the fact of an index replacement contains no new valuation …The main aim of this thesis is to analyse the reactions caused by index replacements in the German benchmark stock …-relevant evidence. However the financial press frequently speculates about index replacements and the consequences on the underlying …

andnon-durable goods.In the models with durable goods, the COLI (Cost of Living Index) and the PPI(Producer Price Index …) identical to the CPI (Consumer Price Index) measured by theacquisitions approach are distinguished, and the COLI/PPI ratio plays … price index formonetary policy and that a policy of targeting core inflation constructed by putting moreweight on prices in …

This paper illustrates how public goods may be incorporated into a cost-of-living index. When public goods are weak … also consistent with a Laspeyres index that maintains the bound on a true cost-of-living index. The paper recovers this … of time when they are improving, incorporating pubic goods into the index lowers the estimated change in the cost of …

(2000)]. The literature on multilateral price index numbers is mostly concerned with the construction of PPP … countrywide consumer expenditure surveys) for estimation of multilateral price index numbers reflecting regional price … explore if such data can be utilised to measure regional price differentials by estimating multilateral (consumer) price index …

index of the accommodation capacity shows some growing values.In the last part of the study we analyze a possible dependence …