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The Boskin Commission Report: A Retrospective One Decade Later

Gordon, Robert J. - In: International Productivity Monitor 12 (2006) Spring, pp. 7-22

The author summarizes the report’s methods, findings, and recommendations, and then reviews the comments and criticisms that appeared soon after the report was issued. Changes in CPI methodology are also summarized and assessed, as is recent research on related issues. Based on recent...

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The BLS Response to the Boskin Commission Report

Greenlees, John S. - In: International Productivity Monitor 12 (2006) Spring, pp. 23-41

The author provides a BLS response to the Boskin Commission from the perspective of ten years following the release of the report. He documents the research on price indexes done at the BLS in the first half of the 1990s that pointed to upward CPI bias, and discusses how these results eventually...

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The Boskin Commission Report After a Decade

Triplett, Jack E. - In: International Productivity Monitor 12 (2006) Spring, pp. 24-60

The author highlights the extremely salutatory effect the Boskin Commission has had on international price statistics, promoting open discussion of price measurement issues, engendering dialogue between statistical agencies and users, and encouraging research. Less positive in the author'sview...

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Policy Implications of the Boskin Commission Report

Baily, Martin Neil - In: International Productivity Monitor 12 (2006) Spring, pp. 74-83

The author supports the type of the back-of-the-envelope calculations of CPI bias that the Commission used so effectively to attract public attention to its report. In the area of quality adjustment, however, he criticizes the Boskin Commission for what he calls “premature extrapolation,”...

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The Boskin Commission Report After a Decade: After-life or Requiem?

Berndt, Ernst R. - In: International Productivity Monitor 12 (2006) Spring, pp. 61-73

The author provides a political economy interpretation of the rise and fall of public interest in price measurement, placing these developments in the context of the attempt by Congress and the White House to deal with growing deficits in the early to mid-1990s. He provides a detailed discussion...

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Economic theory and econometric dynamics in modelling wages and prices in the United Kingdom

Fisher, Paul G.; BÅrdsen, Gunnar - In: Empirical Economics 24 (1999) 3, pp. 483-507

We show that a "competing claims" model of imperfect competition can explain the movements of wages and prices in the …

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On prices in the new neoclassical Sythesis in Macroeconomics

Tobon, Alexander - In: Lecturas de Economía (2008) 69, pp. 201-220

The aim of this paper is to study the role that prices play in the New Neoclassical Synthesis. It is shown that … offers the same answers on the minor role of prices in static macroeconomics. In spite of this, the New Neoclassical … the search for not just better answers, but for new questions regarding prices in a monetary theory. …

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Comments Regarding China’s Influence on the International Metal Markets

Oehler-Sincai, Iulia Monica - In: Revista de Economie Mondiala / The Journal of Global … 6 (2014) 3

in current prices, and its economy will become the largest in the world. Consequently, China’s consumption of metals will …

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Have Economic Reforms Affected Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Prices in India?

Khundrakpam, Jeevan Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper examines the behaviour of exchange rate pass-through to domestic prices in India after the reforms initiated … prices until recent years. Besides economic factors typically associated with economic liberalisation, the persistence of … higher inflation is an important factor for the rise in pass-through. …

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Causal relationship between wages and prices in R. Macedonia: VECM analysis

Josheski, Dushko; Bardarova, Snezana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In this paper the issue of causality between wages and prices in R.Macedonia has been tested. OLS relationship between … prices and wages is positive; productivity is not significant in determination of prices or wages too. Engle-Granger test …

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