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Core Inflation Measures and Statistical Issues in Choosing Among them
Silver, Mick - 2006
This paper provides an overview of statistical measurement issues relating to alternative measures of core inflation … cointegration tests, and correlation with money supply. Country practice can differ in how the approaches are implemented and how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400370
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Whose Inflation? : A Characterization of the CPI Plutocratic Bias
Ley, Eduardo - 2001
Prais (1958) showed that the CPI computed by statistical agencies can be interpreted as a weighed average of household price indexes, the weight of each household determined by its total expenditures. We decompose the difference between the standard CPI and a democratically weighed index (i.e.,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400882
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COVID-19 and the CPI : is inflation underestimated?
Reinsdorf, Marshall B. - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392420
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Measuring Competitiveness
Neary, J. Peter - 2006
measures inspired by the economic theory of index numbers. The indices provide a theoretical benchmark for estimated real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400395
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Price Imputation and Other Techniques for Dealing with Missing Observations, Seasonality and Quality Change in Price Indices
Armknecht, Paul A. - 1999
Price index compilers frequently face situations where price observations are missing due to seasonal unavailability, supply shortages, or the discontinuation of products. Incorrect treatment of such situations can result in biased price indices. This paper presents statistical imputation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400856
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A Framework for Price Statistics
Zieschang, Kimberly D. - 2000
This paper describes the primary framework associating the four principal price indices in the system of economic statistics—the Producer Price Index (PPI), the Consumer Price Index (CPI), and the Export and Import Price Indices (XPI and MPI)—with the macroeconomic value aggregates they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399800
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Why Elementary Price Index Number Formulas Differ : Price Dispersion and Product Heterogeneity
Silver, Mick - 2006
training courses and technical assistance missions. This paper develops elementary level aggregation theory to better inform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402245
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An Index Number Formula Problem : The Aggregation of Broadly Comparable items
Silver, Mick - 2009
Index number theory informs us that if data on matched prices and quantities are available, a superlative index number …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404313
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The distributional implications of the impact of fuel price increases on inflation
Kpodar, Roland Kangni; Liu, Boya - 2021
This paper investigates the response of consumer price inflation to changes in domestic fuel prices, looking at the … findings stand out. First, the response of inflation to gasoline price shocks is smaller, but more persistent and broad … retail fuel prices to estimate the pass-through to inflation significantly underestimate it. Third, while the purchasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796185
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A volatility and persistence-based core inflation
Silva Filho, Tito Nícias Teixeira da; Figueiredo, … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282718