The demand of scientists for confidential micro data from official sources has created discussion of how to anonymize these data in such a way that they can be given to the scientific community. We report results from a German project which exploits various options of anonymization for producing...

The paper uses micro cross-section data from the GfK consumer panel for econometric demand analysis of private households in Germany. Contrary to most research which considered "average" behavior we extend this approach to consumer behavior for different "intensities" of consumption. Our...

This paper proposes the use of the conditional quantile regression approach for the interpretation of the nonlinear relationships between daily maximum 1-h ozone concentrations and both meteorological and persistence information. When applied to eight years (1992-1999) of data from four...