Franses, Philip Hans; Janssens, Eva - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 10 (2017) 4, pp. 1-11
For many developing countries, historical inflation figures are rarely available. We propose a simple method that aims … to recover such figures of inflation using prices of postage stamps issued in earlier years. We illustrate our method for … Suriname, where annual inflation rates are available for 1961 until 2015, and where fluctuations in inflation rates are …