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The Bank of Canada needs a better inflation indicator that is more sensitive to swings in house prices than the … Consumer Price Index (CPI). The author points out that the CPI has not usefully reflected the rapid run-up in housing prices in … recent years. He proposes a new official inflation indicator for monetary policy purposes that would better reflect the …
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between the headline consumer price index (CPI) and the core CPI in the USA. Then we revealed similar behavior in the … evolving in sync since then. The difference between the core CPI and the index of energy has been suffering a transition period … since 2008 with extremely high fluctuations. The index of food has been growing relative to the core CPI and did not reach …
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This paper reviews the main properties of mixed-form (price) indices, in other words, chained indices which in real time behave as direct (fixed-base) indices. The European Union HICP is used as demonstration material.
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Since the British government started using the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) for some uprating purposes in 2011, there … empirical research.The main focus is on the CPI and the Retail Prices Index (RPI), since the other indices all derive from one … differences and within the limitations of how price data is collected within the UK, the RPI is as good a consumer price index as …
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construct monetary condition index (MCI) for the gulf countries, namely Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Kingdom of Saudi …
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This dataset includes annual and quarterly detailed data on financial assets such as investment funds shares, net equity of households in life insurance reserves and net equity of households in pension funds reserves and financial liabilities such as short-term and long-term loans as well as...
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the consumer price index. The most significant variables that have a strong influence on the inflation rate are the … aims to identify the relationship between inflation indicators and various types of globalization (complex integration … contain inflation risks in these countries. The authors used the methods of pairwise linear regression, correlation analysis …
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The gap between the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Wholesale Price Index (WPI) is not always showing a definite trend … headline inflation also differs. Since the CPI food group has more weightage, a rise in food prices affects CPI inflation more … than WPI inflation. And also, the inflation difference between the individual items in food groups shows the high …
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Despite posting their strongest sustained performance in many years, recent measures of output and productivity growth have still fallen short of their 1960-73 averages. Could data-measurement problems affecting the pricing of some services account for the inability of these widely tracked U.S....
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