welcome |
This is the website of Michael Beer, Swiss mathematician and statistician.
research news |
research articles |
14 June 2007 – Math and Music
mathematics and music |
Mathematics and music play very different roles in society. However, they are more closely related to each other than they are commonly perceived to be. This paper identifies such links in three different areas and concludes with the insight that music often has some mathematical characteristics and, more importantly, that artistic aspects can be found in mathematics as well.
27 December 2006 – Price Indices
hedonic elementary price indices |
My PhD thesis sheds some light on the theoretical foundations of hedonic elementary price indices. While being seen as the most promising method for quality-adjusting price indices, the hedonic approach bases upon econometric concepts that used to lack a solid formal description. The thesis tries to fill these gaps and examines hedonic elementary price indices from an axiomatic viewpoint. An application to the market of used cars in Switzerland shows and compares the empirical nature of alternative index estimators.
recreation |
28 October 2009 – Sailing
Not-, Dringlichkeits- und Sicherheitsfunkverkehr auf See |
Im Notfall ist es nützlich die GMDSS-Regeln für den UKW-Sprech- und Digitalfunk auf See schnell zur Hand zu haben. Genau das leistet der hier verfügbare Spickzettel.
11 July 2009 – Price Indices
11th Ottawa Group meeting 2009 |
A paper reviewing the main conceptual advances of my PhD thesis has been accepted as room document at the 11th Ottawa Group meeting (co-authored with H. W. Brachinger). It is also available from the DQE Working Paper Series.