Utilizando parcialmente el enfoque propuesto por Diewert (1998), se estiman los sesgos por sustitución de productos genéricos, por puntos de compra y por mejoras de calidad del índice de precios al consumidor mexicano. El principal resultado indica la existencia de un sesgo al alza de...

La literatura especializada reconoce la existencia de sesgos potenciales en el índice de precios al consumidor. Utilizando índices de precios hedónicos generados por el Bureau of Labor Statistics, el ajuste al precio de los automóviles propuesto por Izquierdo, Licandro y Maydeu (2001), y los...

This paper reviews the possibility that Harvard barometers would have enabled to predict the Great Depression. Based on data from the ABC curves in August 1929, could have been foreseen the collapse of the stock market and the dramatic fall in economic activity?. It is now accepted that Harvard...

This paper it proposes a new indicator of the investment

This paper develops a methodology based on hedonic pricing models to calculate price indexes for new houses in the Santiago province. The primary source of information are the monthly real estate sales records of the Chilean Chamber of Construction associate companies -from January 1994 to July...

This empirical study about global Catholicism, based on the data of the World Values Survey and the European Social Survey, starts with a philosophical introduction by Christian Ghymers (Brussels) on the Roman Catholic Church and Enlightenment. The essence of Ghymers’ proposal to democratize...

The intention of this research is to solve the statistical difficulty when statistical economic series are spliced. Therefore, this paper discusses the scope of the various methods of splicing in the literature. Also presents an additional method, which considers a process of maximization for...

In this paper we compare the official core inflation measure, which is based on the ad hoc exclusion of specific items from the total CPI, against alternatives available in the literature on measurement of trend inflation. The evaluation is done through different criteria that adequate core...

This study aims to evaluate, in terms of their cardinal, ordinal, and dichotomy consistency, five alternative comercial specialization indicators: a Balassa symmetric index version; a Chi-Squared Index; and the Relative Trade Advantage Index, all these three based on revealed comparative...

This paper presents a critical analysis of some of the techniques which are applied in practice to obtain composite indicators from a previous sub-indicator system. In studying each methodology, we identify the advantages and disadvantages associated with them, paying particular attention to...