indices. Since the matched model index does not incorporate price changes for goods which exit, and the goods that exited tend … to be those goods whose prices fall, the matched model index has a selection problem which biases it upwards. The hedonic … index does not have this problem. We illustrate with a new study of price indices for PC's. The hedonic index shows steep …

. We computed monthly average prices for five entry-level items according to the Consumer Price Index for All Urban … dataset covers a small percentage of the CPI-U index, results show how web scraping data may provide timely estimates of sub …

will enable these uncertainties to be defined and measured. For this purpose, the first volatility index created was the … VIX Index as an indicator of uncertainty in the stock markets, which was followed by the OVX Index as an indicator of … uncertainty in the oil markets and the GVZ Index as an indicator of uncertainty in the gold markets. These volatility indices are …

status of consumer price index compilation practices. These data summarize the following key aspects; i) Production …, publication and scope of the Consumer Price Index Program, ii) Data sources, iii) CPI compilation methods and iv) Concepts and …

) method to be biased. In cases where it is not, this index number method is still inefficient and inference is invalid. In … NLCPD method to regional price information derived from Germany’s consumer price index micro data. Price levels of the 401 …