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Millions of goods and services are now unavailable in many countries due to the current coronavirus pandemic, dramatically impacting on the construction of key economic statistics used for informing policy. This situation is unprecedented; hence methods to address it have not previously been...
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The Big Mac Index was introduced to (semi-humorously) test the theory of purchasing power parity and measure the … disparity in currency values. Instead, in this paper, we consider this index to find out the per capita real-income disparity …
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indices. Since the matched model index does not incorporate price changes for goods which exit, and the goods that exited tend … to be those goods whose prices fall, the matched model index has a selection problem which biases it upwards. The hedonic … index does not have this problem. We illustrate with a new study of price indices for PC's. The hedonic index shows steep …
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Much of the opposition to indexation as a means of adapting to on going inflation arises from the view that indexation is itself inflationary. This paper examines the basis for that view in a simple macroeconomic model in which budget deficits are in part financed through the printing of money....
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