Whose Inflation? : A Characterization of the CPI Plutocratic Bias /

Prais (1958) showed that the CPI computed by statistical agencies can be interpreted as a weighed average of household price indexes, the weight of each household determined by its total expenditures. We decompose the difference between the standard CPI and a democratically weighed index (i.e., the...

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מחבר ראשי: Ley, Eduardo
פורמט: כתב-עת
שפה:English
יצא לאור: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001.
סדרה:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2001/059
גישה מקוונת:Full text available on IMF