This paper explores the possibility to widen the current offer of unit value and price indicators in external trade throughout a more intensive and efficient use of the available administrative sources. In particular, it firstly overviews the opportunities offered by a fuller exploitation of...

Alternative approaches to CPI surveys are here evaluated, in markets where final prices are based on some sort of price listing. Three types of surveys are compared: local surveys (LOC), with small samples and a local price collection; list price surveys (LIS), with huge samples and centralised...

The paper presents a method to classify the dynamic patterns of the whole set of sub-indices that make up the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) and to assess the comparability of the national series referred to a same elementary aggregate of the target consumption expenditure. We...