Researchers constructing index number frequently face the problem of new (or disappearing) goods, for which the price … that the corresponding price index takes on a very sensible form. We apply this formula to measure the price index for six … incorporating the new supplying countries, the price index for developing countries is significantly lower than would otherwise be …

important gap by developing a new Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index that focuses on the smallest of small businesses with … at most 9 workers in the US and the UK and at most 19 workers in Canada. The Index aggregates a sample of anonymous … the estimated model and the QBO Payroll sample data to generate a near real-time index of economic activity. We show that …

No cross-sectional consumer price index is currently available by state, and the BLS's cross-sectional "family budget …" index for metropolitan areas is not well-suited for cross-state analyses. In this paper we propose an algorithm for … constructing a state-specific Laspeyres price index using conveniently available information from the Census of Business and the …

The composite index of leading indicators is found to be a valuable tool for predicting not only the direction but also … index as a predictor of (1) business cycle turning points as dated by the National Bureau of Economic Research and (2 …) quantitative changes in real GNP and the composite index of coincident indicators. Specific smoothing rules are identified which …

indices. Since the matched model index does not incorporate price changes for goods which exit, and the goods that exited tend … to be those goods whose prices fall, the matched model index has a selection problem which biases it upwards. The hedonic … index does not have this problem. We illustrate with a new study of price indices for PC's. The hedonic index shows steep …

treatment, rather than prices of fixed bundles of inputs. We outline features of a proposed new experimental price index -- a … medical care expenditure price index -- that is more suitable for evaluation and analyses of medical care cost changes, than …