A price index may be characterized as the factor giving the relative change in this value aggregate arising from changes in prices. As such, all the major price index formulae can be expressed as weighted averages of price relatives whose weights are the shares of items in the value aggregate....

The supply and use table is a valuable framework to collect and arrange the facts regarding the production and consumprion activities, including the characterization of goods and services subjected to trade. As data are collected, the calculation of product share weights allows the determination...

The economic and financial crisis considered within the national behavior, within the behavior implied by the one involved by the overlapped context, within the mixed and overlapped behavior, both national and international (and vice-versa), proved that each country and the European Union as...

The paper starts from the premise: why the statistical agencies do not select the quantitative vector of reference q out of the Lowe formula as being the monthly quantitative vector q0 that belongs to the transactions of the month 0.

The characterization of the evolution over a past period (ex-post) of the prices for consumption goods and services acquired on the market implies the construction and the analysis of the specific chronological series. These series are built up for both absolute and relatives indicator, mainly...

The main reason why price statisticians might prefer a member of the family of Lowe or fixed basket price indices is that the fixed basket concept is easy to explain to the public. Note that the Laspeyres and Paasche indices are special cases of the pure price concept if we choose the reference...

This paper describes the characteristics of the Laspeyres and Paasche indices, as there are increasing requirements for the analysis of prices, quantities and basekt vectors. Both Laspeyres and Paasche are valuable choice for financial and economic analyses.

This paper describes the evolution of various de-flation indicators used as instruments to favor the appreciation of national accounts in constand prices, but also important in revealing the correlation with the price index. The authors focused on the analysis of the main landmarks in the...

This paper analyzes the dynamics of prices in the Romanian economy. There are more aspects to be outlined, as the law changed over time, prices for various categories of goods and merchandises were regulated in several steps over the years. One of the methodologies applied for analysis is the...

The Lowe price index is a type of index in which the quantities are fixed and predetermined. The Lowe quantity index is a type of index in which the prices are fixed and predetermined. Many of the indices produced by statistical agencies turn out to be Lowe indices. Lowe indices have certain...