The empirical measurement of productivity change (or difference) by means of indices and indicators starts with the ex … to indices. The main task for the productivity analyst is to decompose profit or profitability change into price and … quantity components, leading to measures of total factor productivity change and total price recovery. The survey discusses …

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 …

We investigate convergence in European price level, unit labor cost, income, and productivity data over the period of … of those clubs. Total factor productivity data indicate the existence of a small club including fast-growing countries …

and inflation in the member countries. Stress in a country is defined as the difference between the country's actual short …

, imports, inflation, and unemployment) on CO2 emissions in the EU region. Systematization, empirical comparative analysis, and … dependence of carbon dioxide emissions on macroeconomic indicators such as gross domestic product, exports, imports, inflation …

three inflation will increase (decrease) in the next quarter and three times out of five it will increase (decrease) the …

Critics of the consumer price index - the most widely watched inflation measure - contend that it overstates inflation … offer a more accurate reading of inflation levels. A closer look at these alternatives, however, reveals that they have … inflation …