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Price indices and unit value indices in German foreign trade statistics

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  • von der Lippe, Peter

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There is presently an international discussion among statistical institutes, reserve banks etc. about the feasibility of replacing true price indices of exports and imports by unit value indices. For the very few countries, such as Germany, providing both indices on a monthly basis this would mean to give up a (costly) compilation of P-indices. The paper shows that this would be unwise. It aims at exploring the still not well understood methodological differences of both types of indices, and it is also reporting some empirical results of a research project in cooperation with the German Bundesbank.

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  • von der Lippe, Peter, 2007. "Price indices and unit value indices in German foreign trade statistics," MPRA Paper 5525, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:5525
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    1. Paola Anitori & Carlo De Gregorio, 2011. "Methodological aspects and empirical evidence in the use of administrative sources to estimate price dynamics in external trade," Rivista di statistica ufficiale, ISTAT - Italian National Institute of Statistics - (Rome, ITALY), vol. 13(1), pages 33-61, December.
    2. Aaron Garavito & David Camilo López & Enrique Montes, 2011. "Aproximación a los índices de valor unitario y quantum del comercio exterior colombiano," Borradores de Economia 680, Banco de la Republica de Colombia.
    3. Mick Silver, 2010. "The Wrongs And Rights Of Unit Value Indices," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 56(s1), pages 206-223, June.

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    Keywords

    unit value indices; foreign trade statistics;

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    • C43 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Index Numbers and Aggregation

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