Askitas, Nikos; Bindra Martinez, Anoop; Cereda, Fabio - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 245 (2025) 4/5, pp. 589-598
This paper introduces a novel monthly consumption indicator: the IZA/Fable Swipe consumption index for Germany. It is based on credit card transactions data collected and anonymised by Fable Data from 2017 onwards. We study some of the properties of the data and use a so-called "one year look...