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11. Measuring Inflation at a Detailed Level

verfasst von : Robert O’Neill, Jeff Ralph, Paul A. Smith

Erschienen in: Inflation

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

As we have seen in other chapters in this book, the construction of a price index for measuring inflation is a complex business; however, at the lowest level of most price indices, it is reduced to a more simple problem: How to measure the average price change when we are faced with only price information? In this chapter, the main methods for doing this are re-introduced and the relationships between them are considered before we discuss the various ways in which people choose between the available methods.

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Fußnoten
1
We are indebted to the work of Diewert and Nakamura (1993) in providing historical references for the discussion of the early pioneers of index numbers.
 
2
For a strictly concave function \(f( \cdot )\) then \(f\left( {\frac{{\sum\nolimits_{i} w_{i} x_{i} }}{{\sum\nolimits_{i} w_{i} }}} \right) \ge \frac{{\sum\nolimits_{i = 1} w_{i} f(x_{i} )}}{{\sum\nolimits_{i} w_{i} }}\) and the inequality is reversed where \(f( \cdot )\) is a convex function.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Measuring Inflation at a Detailed Level
verfasst von
Robert O’Neill
Jeff Ralph
Paul A. Smith
Copyright-Jahr
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64125-6_11