A price index may be characterized as the factor giving the relative change in this value aggregate arising from changes in prices. As such, all the major price index formulae can be expressed as weighted averages of price relatives whose weights are the shares of items in the value aggregate....

The paper starts from the premise: why the statistical agencies do not select the quantitative vector of reference q out of the Lowe formula as being the monthly quantitative vector q0 that belongs to the transactions of the month 0.

The macroeconomic results indicators have recorded a disastrous trend over the period January 2009 - January 2012 as a result of the effects of the economic and financial extended crisis, worsened by the extended political and moral crisis, the lack of efficiency of the government activity and...

An important element to consider when evaluating the economic evolution of a country over a period of time consists of the way the consumer prices developed, both on an overall basis and by groups of goods and services, as well as of the dual comparison with the planned, forecasted target and...

A price index may be characterized as the factor giving the relative change in this value aggregate arising from changes in prices. As such, all the major price index formulae can be expressed as weighted averages of price relatives whose weights are the shares of items in the value aggregate....

The main reason why price statisticians might prefer a member of the family of Lowe or fixed basket price indices is that the fixed basket concept is easy to explain to the public. Note that the Laspeyres and Paasche indices are special cases of the pure price concept if we choose the reference...

This paper describes the characteristics of the Laspeyres and Paasche indices, as there are increasing requirements for the analysis of prices, quantities and basekt vectors. Both Laspeyres and Paasche are valuable choice for financial and economic analyses.

This paper presents the evolution of the consumer prices, which in turn is a measure if the inflation. By using official statistical data, the authors synthesize the main characteristics of the price indicators. The research emphasizes the the divergent evolution between the consumer price...