index. In this vein, we make two contributions. First, we develop a new algorithm to ensure feasible estimation of …

treatment, rather than prices of fixed bundles of inputs. We outline features of a proposed new experimental price index -- a … medical care expenditure price index -- that is more suitable for evaluation and analyses of medical care cost changes, than …

The U.S. CPI is based on the Laspeyres price index, an index type that has an upward "substitution bias." Thus, the CPI … Price Index recommended adopting for the CPI a "superlative" price index, e.g., the Fisher or Tornqvist indices. Under the …" cost-of-living index (COLI)--than the Laspeyres index, but this assumption implies that: all income elasticities equal 1 …

. Underlying many of these issues is the concept of the Cost-of-Living Index (COLI) and its controversial role as the … methodological foundation for the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Price Index Concepts and Measurements brings together leading experts … Cost-of-Goods Index, and a variety of other methodological frameworks as the bases for consumer price construction …

multilateral index number methods for computing month-to-month inflation. …