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This article looks at increases in the cost of living for Australian households over the past decade. Inflation as … inherent conceptual differences and measurement issues. Even so, other measures of the cost of living have increased by a … similar amount to the CPI over the past decade. Measured inflation has been higher for some households and socio …
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decade on price measurement. A final article discusses the role of information technology in the US growth resurgence. …
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The author summarizes the report’s methods, findings, and recommendations, and then reviews the comments and criticisms that appeared soon after the report was issued. Changes in CPI methodology are also summarized and assessed, as is recent research on related issues. Based on recent...
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The author provides a BLS response to the Boskin Commission from the perspective of ten years following the release of the report. He documents the research on price indexes done at the BLS in the first half of the 1990s that pointed to upward CPI bias, and discusses how these results eventually...
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, promoting open discussion of price measurement issues, engendering dialogue between statistical agencies and users, and … measurement and principles for allocation of resources to the dependent population. …
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The author supports the type of the back-of-the-envelope calculations of CPI bias that the Commission used so effectively to attract public attention to its report. In the area of quality adjustment, however, he criticizes the Boskin Commission for what he calls “premature extrapolation,”...
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The author provides a political economy interpretation of the rise and fall of public interest in price measurement … Academy of Sciences panel, to improve CPI measurement. The author examines the thorny issue of the CPI for health care, with … outcomes. He concludes that the BLS has responded constructively to the recommendations from the various price measurement …
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Brief introduction to the symposium highlighting the importance of price measurement for reliable productivity … estimates. Accurate price indexes are essential for reliable productivity measurement. the author points out that a one …
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Throughout most of the post-war period, the fight against inflation was one of the most important tasks of economic … policymakers. For some months now, with ample spare capacity in major advanced industrial countries and inflation receding in the … wake of the fall of oil prices, some commentators worry more about deflation than inflation, and draw parallels to the …
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inflation that can be attributed solely to the rounding of prices to figures that are "attractive" in euro. The empirical … inflation in 2002 lies between 0.1 and 0.5 percentage points. The changeover apparently worked its effect mainly through …
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