We define the plutocratic bias as the difference between the inflation measured according to the current official CPI and a democratic index in which all households receive the same weight. (i) We estimate that during the 1990s the plutocratic bias in Spain amounts to 0.055 per cent per year, or...

The main goals of this study are to measure quality improvements in automobile sector in Spain and to estimate the quality bias in car price index released by INE. In order to do that, we propose an alternative methodology to estimate hedonic regressions. This methodology involves classifying...

In this paper we address the issue of the distributional consequences of the quality change bias (QCB) in the CPI. In particular, we assess the conjecture raised by some critics of the Boskin commission report that new products and goods affected by quality effects are disproportionately...

This paper provides some evidence on the distributive consequences of economic integration by analyzing the Portuguese and Spanish experiences with EU accession. Despite the coincidence in the moment of accession to EU and other institutional similarities, inequality trends have been different...

En este documento se contrasta la existencia de efectos regionales diferenciados de una política monetaria común y se analizan las características locales que pueden estar detrás de estas respuestas diferenciales. Para ello, utilizamos datos de las regiones españolas para estimar un modelo...

The CPI compares the cost of acquiring a reference quantity vector at current and base prices. Such reference vector is the vector of mean quantities actually bought by a reference population, whose consumption patterns are investigated during a period t prior to the index base period 0. In this...