Sharma, Naresh Kumar; Bicchal, Motilal - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 3 (2015) 1, pp. 1-15
The paper seeks to obtain an optimal asymmetric trimmed mean-based core inflation measure in the class of trimmed mean measures when the distribution of price changes is leptokurtic and skewed to the right for any given period. Several estimators based on asymmetric trimmed mean approach are...
