periods characterized by sustainable linear trends in the difference between the headline consumer price index (CPI) and the … core CPI in the USA. Then we revealed similar behavior in the differences between the CPI and indices of various consumer … the evolution of motor fuel price (a subcategory of the consumer price index of transportation) relative to the core CPI …

In April 2009, we introduced a model representing the evolution of motor fuel price (a subcategory of the consumer … price index of transportation) relative to the overall CPI as a linear function of time. Under our framework, all price … deviations from the linear trend are transient and the price must promptly return to the trend. Specifically, the model predicted …

In the literature on firm strategy and product differentiation, consumer price-quality trade-offs are sometimes … represented using consumer “value maps”. These involve the geometric representation of indifferent price and quality combinations … as points along curves that are concave to the “quality” axis. In this paper, it is shown that the value map for price …

This paper is the first published critique of the indeterminacy of price-value correlations and their inadequacy as … vector of empirically-observed average price of a set of industrial sectors, and a vector of aggregate values calculated as …