canonical correlation analysis and estimated canonical weights are used as weights in the calculation of index scores. Findings … macroeconomic indices, this method of index construction is superior in at least two respects. First, direct measures of a country …

Summary The paper reviews the sources of „Upward bias“ and „Downward bias“ in the US-Consumer Price Index (CPI) and …

underlying the CPI imply substantial consumer substitution, implying that the CPI-U’s Lowe index formula yields higher inflation … formula to provide a closer approximation to a cost-of-living index (COLI). This paper focuses on whether the BLS can improve … index closer to the C-CPI-U. We begin by estimating superlative price indexes for 1999 through 2007 along with indexes based …

Summary Every month the Consumer Price Index for Germany (CPI) provides comprehensive and detailed information … German Consumer Price Index is suitable to follow the price development over time but cannot be used directly to compare … was conducted to check if existing Consumer Price Index data can be used to calculate regional consumer price comparisons …

Summary Catching the effect of substitution behaviour in a Consumer Price Index (CPI) as good as possible is a goal … pursued by statistical agencies throughout the world. The difference between a CPI and a certain target cost-of-living index … is called substitution bias. Balk and Diewert (2003) considered the substitution bias of a Lowe Consumer Price Index; see …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest a lean, agile, resilient, and green (LARG) index as a benchmarking … chain (SC). Design/methodology/approach – The proposed index incorporates LARG supply chain management paradigms and … related to the automotive SC is chosen to illustrate the LARG index application. Findings – The case study results confirmed …

Index-based Outlier Detection (HIOD) algorithm is proposed. HIOD can handle all datatypes that can be abstracted to metric …