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The paper reviews the sources of "Upward bias" and "Downward bias" in the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) and discusses … in terms of differing statistical methods. -- Consumer Price Index ; Economic Growth ; Statistical bias ; Statistical …
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-period dependence and subsitution bias of GDP in constant prices. -- Real GDP ; chained prices ; constant prices ; additivity ; Fisher …
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The paper presents a general theory of the aggregation of prices and quantities that unifies the field and relates … topics that in the past have been treated separately and unsatisfactorily, or not at all. The theory does without the common … the theory lead to Törnqvist indexes defined on the appropriate data set. A numerical example confirms that in the non …
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This paper studies the relative performance of alternative monetary policy rules in the presence of oil price shocks in a small open economy optimizing model. Our analysis shows that it is important to distinguish between alternative price indices (CPI, core CPI, and GDP deflator) when modeling...
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Using frequency domain techniques to separate short and long run dynamics and decomposing inflation into its common and idiosyncratic components, we study the regime dependence of the inflation-RPV relation in Argentina and the USA. Under High inflation, strong long-run comovement between RPV...
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reveal interesting aspects of the evolution of quality and price in the VCR market. Finally the paper estimates a bias of 2 …
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reveal interesting aspects of the evolution of quality and price in the VCR market. Finally the paper estimates a bias of 2 …
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-government bias in media reporting: Under Republican presidents, political coverage tends to be more liberal, whereas it tends to be … differences emerge: For CBS News and NBC News, we find robust empirical evidence of anti-government-bias. In contrast, FOX News is …
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