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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Формат: | Журнал |
Язык: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
1998.
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Серии: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 1998/136 |
Online-ссылка: | Full text available on IMF |