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Updating CPI Weights Through Compositional VAR Forecasts: An Application to the Italian Index

verfasst von : Lisa Crosato, Biancamaria Zavanella

Erschienen in: Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Worldwide, monthly CPIs are mostly calculated as weighted averages of price relatives with fixed base weights. The main source of estimation of CPI weights are National Accounts, whose complexity in terms of data collection, estimation of aggregates and validation procedures leads to several months of delay in the release of the figures. This ends up in a non completely consistent Laspeyres formula since the weights do not refer to the same period as the base prices do, being older by one year and then corrected by the elapsed inflation. In this paper we propose to forecast CPI weights via a compositional VAR model, to obtain more updated weights and, consequently, a more updated measure of inflation through CPIs.

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Fußnoten
1
This methodology holds for the main National index, NIC, as well as for the European Harmonized index HCPI. Both are chained Laspeyres indexes.
 
2
European Classification of Individual Consumption according to Purpose.
 
3
Other sources of information on Household expenditures, both official and nonofficial, are exploited.
 
4
All weights indicate by capital W are before normalization just to highlight their temporal structure.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Updating CPI Weights Through Compositional VAR Forecasts: An Application to the Italian Index
verfasst von
Lisa Crosato
Biancamaria Zavanella
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73906-9_15

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