This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland … component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function. The efficiency component includes the behavioural response to price … position of the household in the income distribution and that behavioural response can potentially improve the welfare position …

in urban China over the period 1986 to 2001. Spatial Price Index (SPI) is normally calculated using the Basket Cost … those obtained from the Basket Cost method. Further, regional price variations in urban China increased significantly during …Despite the intensive efforts made by economists to examine regional income inequality in China, limited attention has …

expectations on future home values. We explore the relationship between house price expectations, local economic conditions, and … price expectations vary significantly over time, and are positively related to past housing returns and perceived economic …

the SMIC which has always profited by price rises, in real and relative terms, which have become less strong. This …

" - although they generate price inertia, they cannot account for the stylised fact of inflation persistence. It is thus commonly … equilibrium setting (in which real variables not only affect inflation, but are also influenced by it), standard wage-price …