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This thesis explores whether scanner data can be used to inform Consumer Price Index (CPI) construction, with particular reference to the issues of substitution bias and choice of aggregation dimensions. The potential costs and benefits of using scanner data are reviewed. Existing estimates of...
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In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.
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This paper describes the IMF's projections and estimates of St. Vincent and the Grenadines on prices and wages, GDP by … economic activity at current factor cost and by type of expenditure at current prices, petroleum consumption and unit values …
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Conventional wisdom suggests that producer prices are more rigid than consumer prices and therefore play less of a role … for the producer price index, we find that producer prices for finished goods and services in fact exhibit roughly the … same rigidity as consumer prices that include sales and substantially less rigidity than consumer prices that exclude them …
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construction and coverage of these measures and touch on some of the issues affecting the measurement of prices for a broad range …
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This paper was presented at the conference "Economic Statistics: New Needs for the Twenty-First Century," cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, and the National Association for Business Economics, July 11, 2002. The main objective...
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The computerization of retailing has made price dispersion a norm in the United States, so that any given list price or transactions price is an increasingly imperfect measure of a product's resource cost. As a consequence, measuring the real output of retailers has become increasingly...
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In this paper, we derive two new measures of international relative prices for Norway. Developments in these new …
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estimates are potentially inefficient and open to omitted variable bias for two reasons. First, they use average prices across … outlets as the left-hand-side variable. Second, quality-adjusted prices of non-comparable replacements, required when products …
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