The Joint UNECE/ILO Meeting on Consumer Price Indices serves as a forum for discussion of methodological and practical aspects of the compilation of price indices. By presentation and discussion of papers and exchange of experiences the meeting supports the development of internationally...

Topics: - The microeconomics of exchange rate pass through into import prices - The transmission of import prices to prices at the retail level - The globalization of the inflationary process, and the global slack hypothesis - The nature of optimal monetary policy in a more open economy -...