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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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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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. The paper also proposes devising a core inflation measure for inflation targeting in Egypt …
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under-weighted, but the under-weighting remains fairly stable over time so that inflation measurement is not signi ficantly … both the representativeness of prices included in the CPI and on estimates of inflation. We use high-frequency scanner data …
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time so that inflation measurement is not significantly affected. In addition, we find evidence that the typical practice … estimates of inflation. We use high-frequency scanner data from US supermarkets to explore if there is any systematic …
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well as the improvements made to this measure of inflation since 2003 – finds that the HICP continues to fulfil the … replacement and quality adjustment. Such measures may also help reduce the measurement bias that still exists in the HICP. Overall …, a knowledge gap concerning the exact size of the measurement bias of the HICP remains, which calls for further research …
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The standard measure of core or underlying inflation is the inflation rate excluding food and energy prices. This paper … constructs an alternative measure, the weighted median inflation rate, for 38 advanced and emerging economies using subclass …, and more closely related to headline inflation over the next year. The weighted median also has a drawback: in most …
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How much does quality adjustment matter in measuring consumer price inflation? To address this question, we use … inflation only by 0.06 percentage points, which is balanced out by an increase due to quantity adjustment (e.g. a smaller … deriving the distribution of member states' cumulative inflation rates for typical quality-adjusted products. Our macro …
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How much does quality adjustment matter in measuring consumer price inflation? To address this question, we use … inflation only by 0.06 percentage points, which is balanced out by an increase due to quantity adjustment (e.g. a smaller … deriving the distribution of member states’ cumulative inflation rates for typical quality-adjusted products. Our macro …
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including OOH in the HICP to derive a new inflation index. We discuss the conceptual and measurement issues involved …. We show that since 2011 the estimated impact of including OOH in HICP annual inflation, based on either the "net … suggests that including OOH based on the rental equivalence approach decreases the cyclicality of the new inflation index …
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