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Consumer price index, U.S. city average and selected areas.
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Page : pages
File Size : 36,37 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Consumer price indexes
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Consumer price index, U.S. city average and selected areas.
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Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,21 MB
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Category : Consumer price indexes
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Consumer price index, U.S. city average and selected areas.
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Page : 620 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Consumer price indexes
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Consumer price index, U.S. city average and selected areas.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index
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Page : 212 pages
File Size : 16,55 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Consumer price indexes
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Page : pages
File Size : 38,2 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Consumer price indexes
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Consumer price index, U.S. city average and selected areas.
Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 25,79 MB
Release : 2004-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789221136996
The consumer price index (CPI) measures the rate at which prices of consumer goods and services change over time. It is used as a key indicator of economic performance, as well as in the setting of monetary and socio-economic policy such as indexation of wages and social security benefits, purchasing power parities and inflation measures. This manual contains methodological guidelines for statistical offices and other agencies responsible for constructing and calculating CPIs, and also examines underlying economic and statistical concepts involved. Topics covered include: expenditure weights, sampling, price collection, quality adjustment, sampling, price indices calculations, errors and bias, organisation and management, dissemination, index number theory, durables and user costs.
Author : Peter J. N. Sinclair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135179778
Inflation is regarded by the many as a menace that damages business and can only make life worse for households. Keeping it low depends critically on ensuring that firms and workers expect it to be low. So expectations of inflation are a key influence on national economic welfare. This collection pulls together a galaxy of world experts (including Roy Batchelor, Richard Curtin and Staffan Linden) on inflation expectations to debate different aspects of the issues involved. The main focus of the volume is on likely inflation developments. A number of factors have led practitioners and academic observers of monetary policy to place increasing emphasis recently on inflation expectations. One is the spread of inflation targeting, invented in New Zealand over 15 years ago, but now encompassing many important economies including Brazil, Canada, Israel and Great Britain. Even more significantly, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and the United States Federal Bank are the leading members of another group of monetary institutions all considering or implementing moves in the same direction. A second is the large reduction in actual inflation that has been observed in most countries over the past decade or so. These considerations underscore the critical – and largely underrecognized - importance of inflation expectations. They emphasize the importance of the issues, and the great need for a volume that offers a clear, systematic treatment of them. This book, under the steely editorship of Peter Sinclair, should prove very important for policy makers and monetary economists alike.
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 36,10 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Cost and standard of living
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Author : Dean Baker
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780765602220
An introduction to the significance of the debate surrounding the accuracy of the Consumer Price Index. The work presents the full text of the Boskin Commission report (stating that the CPI overstates inflation by 1.1per cent) and discusses the Commission's research methodology and its conclusions.
Author : W. Erwin Diewert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226148572
Although inflation is much feared for its negative effects on the economy, how to measure it is a matter of considerable debate that has important implications for interest rates, monetary supply, and investment and spending decisions. 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 to address the many questions involved in conceptualizing and measuring inflation. They evaluate the accuracy of COLI, a Cost-of-Goods Index, and a variety of other methodological frameworks as the bases for consumer price construction.