agencies and private organizations all conducting investigations into the pricing patterns for generic drugs. Price spikes for … selected old, off-patent drugs have also been widely reported in the media. To place these generic price increases into context …, we construct two chained Laspeyres consumer price indexes (CPIs), using the 2007-2016 IBM MarketScan Commercial Claims …

previous research has indicated. That is, seasonal price movements have become more prominent in the relatively stable … in prices differs greatly by item, making it difficult to generalize about seasonal price movements. A casual reading …

of recent research on quality change and comments on the current status of the CPI and of price measurement research …

The recent financial crisis in Indonesia has resulted in dramatic price increases. Using very recent data, we … investigate whether these price increases have impacted the cost-of-living of poor households in a disproportionately harsh way …

An indexed unit of account is a unit of measurement defined using an index such as a consumer price index so that … creating such units is an important policy option for governments in countries with unstable price levels. A model is given … increase the frequency of index computation when the price level becomes more volatile …

unequal welfare effects of non-marginal foreign price changes also depend on differences in how consumers substitute between … the Swiss franc, we provide evidence that lower income households have higher price elasticities. These differences in … elasticities contribute significantly to the unequal welfare effects of large import price changes …

Many price indices must be constructed without quantity data at the elementary level. We show that for some consumer … reduces bias in the frequency of price changes, in annual inflation, and in price comparisons across countries …