Drift in Producer Price Indexes for the Former Soviet Union (FSU) Countries /

The purpose of this paper is to show that, under the price fluctuations that characterize most transition economies, the commonly used chain index derived from the published month-to-month price change of the PPI in some cases dramatically overstates the rate of price inflation. The analysis is base...

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Autor principal: Zieschang, Kimberly
Altres autors: Lequiller, Francois
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1994.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1994/035
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