Search Results - subject:"Unit Values"

Price indices on the basis of unit values: Unit value indices as proxies for price indices

von der Lippe, Peter - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2010

In some countries a Paasche price index based on unit values is compiled as a proxy for a true Paasche (or Laspeyres …) price index on the basis of prices. This is for example the case in German foreign trade statistics. Unit values are average … general reported in price statistics. Changes in unit values between two points in time, however, do not only reflect a price …

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Notes on Unit Value Index Bias

Diewert, Erwin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

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Understanding Price Variation Across Stores and Supermarket Chains: Some Implications for CPI Aggregation Methods

Ivancic, Lorraine; Fox, Kevin J. - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 2010

The empirical literature on price indices consistently finds that aggregation methods have a considerable impact, particularly when scanner data are used. This paper outlines a novel approach to test for the homogeneity of goods and hence for the appropriateness of aggregation. A hedonic...

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A Penny Saved: Prices and the Timing of Paycheck Receipt

Beatty, Timothy K.M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

This paper explores a puzzling empirical regularity: households pay less for foods as the time since receipt of their last paycheck increases. I leverage randomization with regard to paycheck timing to causally identify the effect of time since paycheck receipt on prices. Estimates of the...

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A touch of sophistication: FDI and unit values of exports

Harding, Torfinn; Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2009

country’s export basket. The empirical analysis relates unit values of exports measured at the 4-digit SITC level to data on … over the period 1984-2000. The findings are consistent with a positive effect of FDI on unit values of exports in …

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Market Positioning of Varieties in World Trade: is Latin America Losing Out on Asia?

Mulder, Nanno; Paiilacar, Rodrigo; Zignago, Soledad - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2009

harmonised bilateral unit values for most countries in the world at the most disaggregated product-level (5,000 products) for the … nations. Finally, we analyse the determinants of unit values of Latin American and Asian exports. Econometric tests confirm …

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Scanner Data, Time Aggregation and the Construction of Price Indexes

Diewert, Erwin; Fox, Kevin J.; Ivancic, Lorraine - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

The impact of weekly, monthly and quarterly time aggregation on estimates of price change is examined for nineteen different supermarket item categories over a fifteen month period using scanner data. We find that time aggregation choices (the choice of a weekly, monthly or quarterly unit value...

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A Touch of Sophistication: FDI and Unit Values of Exports

Harding, Torfinn; Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - CESifo - 2009

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Hicksian separability does not hold over space: Implications for the design of household surveys and price questionnaires

Gibson, John; Kim, Bonggeun - In: Journal of Development Economics 114 (2015) C, pp. 34-40

If relative prices of goods within a commodity group are constant, Hicksian separability lets the price of a single good represent the group price level. This is relied on by price questionnaires used with household surveys in developing countries and when constructing temporal and spatial...

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Multinational exposure, export variety and price : evidence from Chinese electronics exporters

Yang, Chih-Hai; Tsou, Meng-wen - In: Journal of the Japanese and international economies : … 38 (2015), pp. 93-110

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