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The headline inflation rate is subject to unpredictable, temporary, sector-specific shocks. Therefore, various measures of core inflation have been proposed to isolate the underlying or permanent inflation component. In this paper, a number of criteria are used to evaluate several statistical...
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Politicians and car owners are regularly concerned about the level of gasoline prices. Especially, Dutch gasoline … prices seem to be high in an European perspective. This paper therefore analyses the developments of gasoline prices in the … Netherlands and some other European countries from 1996 up till 2001. The paper shows that the level of Dutch gasoline prices both …
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This article discusses and advocates extension of the traditional price index to include asset prices. A price index … which reflects current asset prices would be of great help to those preparing monetary policy for EMU, and is particularly …
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