Is the United States CPI Biased Across Income and Age Groups? /

The recent Boskin Commission Report (1996) underscores a significant upward bias in CPI measurement in the United States. This may result in excessive cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) of some entitlements in the federal budget because COLA is indexed to CPI. This paper presents some evidence that ov...

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Autor principal: Erbas, S.
Outros Autores: Sayers, Chera
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
coleção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/136
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF