The unit value index (UVI) as compiled in Germany for exports and imports is compared with two other indices, viz. an index of Drobisch which unfortunately is likewise known as 'unit value index' and the 'normal' Laspeyres price index (PI) of exports and imports. The UVI may be viewed as a...

Der Beitrag ist eine Fortführung des IBES Diskussionsbeitrags Nr. 191 'Standardisierung der Einnahmen einer Arztpraxis, Methoden der Honorarumrechnung auf Einnahmen einer 'Normpraxis', die ausschließlich EBM-Leistungen (für GKV Patienten) in Vollzeit erbringt'. Dort wurde eine...

German economists as for example Laspeyres and Paasche made remarkable contributions to index theory in the 19th and early 20th century. Typical for the German school was the idea of “pure price comparison” and the emphasis on a verbal interpretation of index formulas. However, it lost...

With Laspeyres, Paasche and other authors such as Drobisch and Lehr, Germany made quite a promising start in index theory in the last decades of the 19th century. However, it soon lost ground after this period, which is described in this paper. The focus is not on biographies but on...

In a number of articles Neubauer tried to justify and recommend the use of two formulas, one known as Palgrave's index, the other being the harmonic mean of price relatives where weights are expenditures at base period. The properties of the two formulas are examined in detail. The indices have...

A popular and widespread, though rarely ever scrutinised method of measuring a complex multidimensional construct y consists of adding the scores (Wert), ..., (Wert) assigned to a unit in in "dimensions". These scores ("indicators") are supposed to represent the in relevant aspects of y....

The System of National Accounts (SNA) as well as the Boskin Report inconclusively discarded the idea of pure price comparison in favour of index formulas for which a meaningful interpretation is difficult to he found. The shortcomings of the "economic theory" approach followed in the Boskin...

It is often the case that the value of a number of somewhat similar units (e. g., automobiles of a certain general type) is divided by the number of units in order to form a unit value price and these unit value prices are compared over two periods in order to form a unit value price index. This...