Standard measures of consumer price inflation are based on a bundle of representative goods. It is well known that this approach might overstate inflation for new products and products with fast increasing quality. For this reason, hedonic adjustment methods have been proposed and introduced in...

Standard measures of consumer price inflation are based on a bundle of representative goods. It is well known that this approach might overstate inflation for new products and products with fast increasing quality. For this reason, hedonic adjustment methods have been proposed and introduced in...

Threshold Accepting (TA) is a powerful optimization heuristic from the class of stochastic local search algorithms. It has been applied successfully to different optimization problems in statistics and econometrics, including the uniform design problem. Using the latter application as example,...

Peter Winker Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung und Ökonometrie Dritte, aktualisierte Auflage 4y Springer Inhaltsverzeichnis Vorwort V Teil I Einleitung 1 Aufgabe und Prinzip der empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung 3 1.1...

Mengenrationierungsmodelle erwiesen sich in den vergangenen Jahren als geeignete Instrumente, um Entwicklungen auf Güter- und Arbeitsmärkten zu beschreiben. Wesentliches Ingrediens dieser Modelle ist die Abkehr von der Annahme ständig preisgeräumter Märkte. Als Ursache für die Rationierung...

In econometric modelling the choice of relevant variables is of crucial importance for the Interpretation of the results. In many cases it is based on some a priori knowledge from economic theory and a rather heuristic procedure for determining other influential variables sometimes based on an...