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Disparities in Prices and Income Across German NUTS 3 Regions

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Reinhold Kosfeld () (Department of Economics, University of Kassel)
Hans-Friedrich Eckey () (Department of Economics, University of Kassel)
Jorgen Lauridsen () (Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark)

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In EU countries, knowledge on spatial disparities in overall price level is extremely scarce. When interregional price disparities are large, however, nominal income measures fail to assess prosperity and the catch-up processes of regions. Despite its importance for regional policy, no official regional price statistic is available as a standard. On account of this gap, this paper deals with the econometric estimation of regional price indices for German NUTS 3 regions. Econometric price models for the consumer price index (CPI) and the housing rent index (HRI) are developed on the ground of utility maximization in a two-goods model. The estimated price indices are used to analyse price disparities in the period 1995-2004 across German NUTS 3 regions. Real income comparisons show that the East/West gap is likely to be substantially larger than assessed from incomplete price data in previous studies.

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Paper provided by University of Kassel, Institute of Economics in its series Discussion Papers in Economics with number 93/07.

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Keywords: Regional price level; econometric price models; price disparities; real income disparities;

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C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
R13 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - General Equilibrium and Welfare Economic Analysis of Regional Economies
R31 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - Production Analysis and Firm Location - - - Housing Supply and Markets

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