Rao, D.S. Prasada; Doran, Howard E.; Selvanathan, E.A. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 35 (2003)
In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating general and commodity-specific inflation rates by the stochastic approach considered in Clements and Izan (1987) and Selvanathan (1989). In order to achieve identification of commodity-specific rates, a linear constraint usually is imposed,...