Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 80,832
Cover Image
The product life cycle and sample representativity bias in price indexes
Melser, Daniel; Syed, Iqbal A. - In: Applied economics 49 (2017) 6, pp. 573-586
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810805
Cover Image
Retrospective computations of price index numbers : theory and application
Auer, Ludwig von; Shumskikh, Alena - In: Review of income and wealth 70 (2024) 1, pp. 60-79
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014536088
Cover Image
Quality Adjustment at Scale : Hedonic vs. Exact Demand-Based Price Indices
Ehrlich, Gabriel; Haltiwanger, John C.; Jarmin, Ronald S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper explores alternative methods for adjusting price indices for quality change at scale. These methods can be applied to large-scale item-level transactions data that includes information on prices, quantities, and item attributes. The hedonic methods can take into account the changing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322697
Cover Image
Potenziale und Grenzen eines nutzenbasierten ökonomischen Leitbildes für die amtliche Inflationsmessung
Auer, Ludwig von - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 225 (2005) 3, pp. 283-302
offizielle Inflation deshalb auf Basis eines statistischen Preisindex (SP) berechnet werden. Bei der Suche nach geeigneten SPs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837638
Cover Image
Consistency in Aggregation
Auer, Ludwig - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 224 (2004) 4, pp. 383-398
In empirical economic research, individual prices are often aggregated into average prices of sub-aggregates. Then, these average prices are aggregated to produce the average price of the total aggregate. Often, such two stage procedures help to illuminate the underlying forces driving the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458532
Cover Image
Notes on Unit Value Index Bias
Lippe, Peter von der; Diewert, W. Erwin - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 230 (2010) 6, pp. 690-708
with other standard index number formulae and the bias in the index can be determined. The present paper presents most of … the known results on this bias (and derives some new ones) in a coherent framework using a simple identity from the … unit value into more homogeneous subgroups reduce the unit value bias? The answer seems to be: probably yes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765945
Cover Image
A newly identified source of potential CPI bias : weekly versus monthly unit value price indexes
Diewert, Walter E.; Fox, Kevin J.; Haan, Jan de - In: Economics letters 141 (2016), pp. 169-172
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011616237
Cover Image
A generalization to QUAIDS
Nia, Arman Bidarbakht - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 52 (2017) 1, pp. 393-410
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632801
Cover Image
Inflation measurement in times of large consumption shifts : evidence of the CPI bias from Poland
Hałka, Aleksandra; Leszczyńska-Paczesna, Agnieszka - In: Acta oeconomica : periodical of the Hungarian Academy … 73 (2023) 3, pp. 383-401
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014430804
Cover Image
Online and official price indexes : measuring Argentina's inflation
Cavallo, Alberto - 2012 - This version: February 27, 2012
Prices collected from online retailers can be used to construct high-frequency price indexes that complement official statistics. This paper studies their ability to match official inflation estimates in five Latin American countries, with a focus on Argentina, where official statistics have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010195108