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Is the transmission of crude oil prices to gasoline prices asymmetric?

AUDENIS, C.; BISCOURP, P.; RIEDINGER, N. - Département des Études Économiques d'Ensemble (D3E), … - 2001

asymmetrically to the prices of fuel. We use an error correction model to estimate the dynamics of the transmission of the cost of … crude oil expressed in French currency, to the production and before taxes retail prices of several kinds of fuel. We … simulate the responses of the production and retail prices to positive as well as negative shocks affecting the cost of crude …

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The Boskin Commission Report: A Retrospective One Decade Later

Gordon, Robert J. - In: International Productivity Monitor 12 (2006) Spring, pp. 7-22

The author summarizes the report’s methods, findings, and recommendations, and then reviews the comments and criticisms that appeared soon after the report was issued. Changes in CPI methodology are also summarized and assessed, as is recent research on related issues. Based on recent...

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The BLS Response to the Boskin Commission Report

Greenlees, John S. - In: International Productivity Monitor 12 (2006) Spring, pp. 23-41

The author provides a BLS response to the Boskin Commission from the perspective of ten years following the release of the report. He documents the research on price indexes done at the BLS in the first half of the 1990s that pointed to upward CPI bias, and discusses how these results eventually...

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The Boskin Commission Report After a Decade

Triplett, Jack E. - In: International Productivity Monitor 12 (2006) Spring, pp. 24-60

The author highlights the extremely salutatory effect the Boskin Commission has had on international price statistics, promoting open discussion of price measurement issues, engendering dialogue between statistical agencies and users, and encouraging research. Less positive in the author'sview...

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Policy Implications of the Boskin Commission Report

Baily, Martin Neil - In: International Productivity Monitor 12 (2006) Spring, pp. 74-83

The author supports the type of the back-of-the-envelope calculations of CPI bias that the Commission used so effectively to attract public attention to its report. In the area of quality adjustment, however, he criticizes the Boskin Commission for what he calls “premature extrapolation,”...

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The Boskin Commission Report After a Decade: After-life or Requiem?

Berndt, Ernst R. - In: International Productivity Monitor 12 (2006) Spring, pp. 61-73

The author provides a political economy interpretation of the rise and fall of public interest in price measurement, placing these developments in the context of the attempt by Congress and the White House to deal with growing deficits in the early to mid-1990s. He provides a detailed discussion...

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Structural Determinants of the Exchange-Rate Pass-Through

Gaulier, Guillaume; Lahrèche-Révil, Amina; Méjean, … - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2006

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Editor’s Overview

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 12 (2006) Spring, pp. 1-4

This twelth issue of the International Productivity Monitor, published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards, differs from past issues. Five of the six articles address one topic, namely the impact of the Boskin Commission after one decade on price measurement. A final article...

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Import Prices, Variety and the Extensive Margin of Trade

Gaulier, Guillaume; Méjean, Isabelle - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2006

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Exchange-Rate Pass-Trough at the Product Level

Gaulier, Guillaume; Lahrèche-Révil, Amina; Méjean, … - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2006

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