indexes are defined and used to analyze several empirical methods of estimation of quality adjusted price indexes. The paper … may remove the measurement problems associated with quality change. The paper includes an application of the theory to the …

We provide evidence on the effect of elementary index choice on inflation measurement. Using scanner data for 15844 … indexes using nine different elementary index formulas. Measured inflation outcomes of the different index formulas are … compared with the Fisher Ideal index to quantify elementary index bias. Across product categories, mean levels of annual …

credit-to-GDP levels. We use estimation results obtained for a panel of small open OECD economies (out-of-sample panel) to …

This paper uses index number theory to disentangle changes in aggregate retail interest rates due to changes in … optimal calculation of a binary index using axiomatic index number theory; on that basis, chain and direct indices are …"), on the basis of the "difference" index numbers recently revisited by Diewert (2005). The paper, first discusses the …

contributions in the context of static panel data models. The first is to show under what conditions the aggregation of foreign …