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Pro-poor price trends and inequality : the case of India
Almås, Ingvild; Kjelsrud, Anders - 2016
these differences in cost-of-living. In this paper, we study consumption inequality in India, while fully allowing for non …
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Pro-Poor Price Trends and Inequality -- The Case of India
Almås, Ingvild - 2016
these differences in cost-of-living. In this paper, we study consumption inequality in India, while fully allowing for non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997773
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Price indexes, inequality, and the measurement of world poverty
Deaton, Angus - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 1, pp. 5-34
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The measurement of macroeconomic price level changes
Auer, Ludwig von - 2009
Textbooks of macroeconomics regularly remind their readers that they should not interpret the macroeconomic price variable as some sort of average price. Instead it represents some price index indicating the average of the individual items' price changes between the period considered and some...
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Prices over the Product Life Cycle : Implications for Quality-Adjustment and the Measurement of Inflation
Melser, Daniel - 2013
this has on the measurement of inflation. Using a large US scanner data set on supermarket products and applying flexible … introduces a systematic bias in the measurement of inflation. For our data we find that the life cycle bias underestimates the … measurement of inflation by around 0.30 percentage points each year …
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PPI and Measuring Inflation in Business Transactions in Egypt
Nawar, Abdel-Hameed - 2008
This paper discusses and analyzes selected pertinent statistical and economic questions raised by the shift in price statistics towards covering broader markets of the economy, namely introducing a Producers Price Index (PPI) series in place of the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) series in Egypt...
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Measurement of Inflation : An Alternative Approach
Selvanathan, E. A. - 2006
The stochastic approach to index numbers has attracted renewed attention in recent times (e.g., Clements and Izan, 1981 and 1987; Diewert, 1995; Giles and McCann, 1994; and Selvanathan and Rao, 1994). One of the attractions of this approach is that it provides standard errors for the index numbers. This...
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Measuring Competitiveness
Neary, J. Peter - 2006
This paper reviews alternative approaches to measuring an economy's cost competitiveness and proposes some new measures inspired by the economic theory of index numbers. The indices provide a theoretical benchmark for estimated real effective exchange rates, but differ from standard measures in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779161
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Price Discounts and the Measurement of Inflation
Fox, Kevin J. - 2014
under-weighted, but the under-weighting remains fairly stable over time so that inflation measurement is not signi ficantly …
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Price Discounts and the Measurement of Inflation : Further Results
Fox, Kevin J. - 2016
time so that inflation measurement is not significantly affected. In addition, we find evidence that the typical practice …
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