European Union

Proprietary data:
No
Period:
1985 - 1985
Frequency:
Point-in-time
Number of goods:
1805
Countries:
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom
Spreadsheet:
Eurostat 1985 spreadsheet
Research papers:
5

Citing the Data


This archive was developed by Mario J. Crucini, Chris I. Telmer and Marios Zachariadis. Users of the archive are requested to cite the following article:

“Understanding European Real Exchange Rates,” (Mario J. Crucini, Chris I. Telmer, and Marios Zachariadis), American Economic Review, June 2005, Vol. 95, No 23, 724-738. 

Description


The Eurostat price data consists of four separate cross-sections with the properties indicated in the table below

  1975 1980 1985 1990
Number of countries 9 12 13 13
Number of goods 658 1090 1805 1896
Proportion missing 13% 36% 38% 44%
Least missing 9% 23% 25% 32%
Most missing 27% 47% 53% 55%
Proportion branded 31% 42% 48% 54%

Research papers referencing current micro price data:

  1. Glushenkova, M., & Zachariadis, M.:  Law-of-One-Price deviations Before and After the Euro: the case of Cyprus - 2014
  2. Giri, Rahul:  Local costs of distribution, international trade costs and micro evidence on the Law of One Price - 2012
  3. Yorukoglu, Mehmet:  Product vs. process innovations and economic fluctuations - 2000
  4. Inanc, Ozlem and Marios Zachariadis:  The importance of trade costs in deviations from the Law-of-One-Price: Estimates based on the direction of trade - 2012
  5. Mario J. Crucini, Chris I. Telmer, and Marios Zachariadis:  Understanding European Real Exchange Rates - 2005

Cities in current dataset:


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