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Measuring inflation in the EU in times of COVID-19
Lamboray, Claude; Evangelista, Rui; Konijn, Paul - In: Eurostat review on national accounts and macroeconomic … (2020), pp. 35-51
to ensure the continued compilation of the European harmonised index of consumer prices, which is the comparable measure …
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Measuring the instability of China's financial system : indices construction and an early warning system
Sun, Lixin; Huang, Yuqin - 2016
In this paper, employing several econometric techniques, the authors construct a financial stress index (CNFSI) and a … financial conditions index (CNFCI) to measure the instability of China's financial system. The indices are based on the monthly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416485
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Measuring the instability of China's financial system : indices construction and an early warning system
Sun, Lixin; Huang, Yuqin - 2016
In this paper, employing several econometric techniques, the authors construct a financial stress index (CNFSI) and a … financial conditions index (CNFCI) to measure the instability of China's financial system. The indices are based on the monthly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502689
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Quantifying bias and inaccuracy of upper-level aggregation in HICPs for Germany and the euro area
Herzberg, Julika; Knetsch, Thomas A.; Schwind, Patrick; … - 2021
Current HICP measurement practices produce an upward bias of about one-ninth of a percentage point in German inflation … the euro area HICP. The measurement of the German HICP is impaired by the extrapolation of expenditure weights, and the … likely to be relevant for the euro area HICP as well but cannot be quantified due to data constraints. Compilers might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012489562
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Empirical Productivity Indices and Indicators
Balk, Bert M. - 2018
The empirical measurement of productivity change (or difference) by means of indices and indicators starts with the ex post profit/loss accounts of a production unit. Key concepts are profit, leading to indicators, and profitability, leading to indices. The main task for the productivity analyst...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936176
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Indices on Cryptocurrencies : an Evaluation
Häusler, Konstantin; Xia, Hongyu - 2021
, index issuers face the challenge of tracking thedynamics of a fast-growing sector that is under continuous transformation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217453
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On the use of spectral value decomposition for the construction of composite indices
Farnia, Luca - 2019
High dimensional composite index makes experts' preferences in setting weights a hard task. In the literature, one of … motivates theoretical reasons to derive the weights of the elementary indicators in a composite index when multiple components …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011999119
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Building daily economic sentiment indicators
Rey del Castillo, Pilar - 2022
The availability of copious amounts of data produced by the increasing datification of our society is nowadays deemed an opportunity to produce timely and convenient statistical information. This paper shows the building of economic sentiment indexes from the texts of the most read economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013453734
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Improving on the CPI : A Proposal for a Better Inflation Indicator
Poschmann, Finn - 2015
The Bank of Canada should track inflation using a measure that better accounts for changes in resale housing prices, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report. In “Improving on the CPI: A Proposal for a Better Inflation Indicator,” authors Finn Poschmann and Aaron Jacobs urge the Bank to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017196
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The Generalized Unit Value Index
Auer, Ludwig von - 2011
The inflation rate is normally computed as a weighted average of individual price changes. Alternatively, this rate could be evaluated by comparing average price levels. Unfortunately, this methodology has received limited attention in past research. This study attempts to remedy this situation...
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