Search Results - subject:"Unit values"

Import prices, income, and inequality

Bekkers, Eddy; Francois, Joseph F.; Manchin, Miriam - In: European economic review : EER 56 (2012) 4, pp. 848-869

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Markups, quality, and transport costs

Martin, Julien - In: European economic review : EER 56 (2012) 4, pp. 777-791

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How Much Restructuring did the Transition Countries Experience? Evidence from Quality of their Exports

Kandogan, Yener - 2004

behind them. Changes in factor intensity and unit values of both CEEC and CIS exports in different manufacturing sectors …

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Purchasing power parity exchange rates from household survey data: India and Indonesia

Deaton, Angus; Friedman, Jed; Alatas, Vivi - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2004

proposes and implements a new methodology for calculating PPPs using information on unit values from household surveys …. Although unit values are not identical to prices, they have compensating advantages. Large household surveys contain several … million unit values, they are tied to actual transactions, and they are naturally linked to household characteristics such as …

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How Much Restructuring did the Transition Countries Experience? Evidence from Quality of their Exports

Kandogan, Yener - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

behind them. Changes in factor intensity and unit values of both CEEC and CIS exports in different manufacturing sectors …

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Latin America in the Era of Glabalization - Introduction

Claro, Sebastián - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 40 (2003) 121, pp. 413-413

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Estimation of Unit Values in Cross Sections without Quantity Information and Implications for Demand and Welfare Analysis

Atella, Vincenzo; Menon, Martina; Perali, Federico - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2003

precludes the possibility of deriving household specific unit values. The aggregate price indexes derived from sources exogenous … theoretical result developed by Lewbel (1989) to construct "pseudo" unit values by 1) reproducing the variability of … series of cross-sections of Italian household budgets including, in turn, aggregate price indexes and "pseudo" unit values …

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Estimation of household demand systems with theoretically compatible engel curves and unit value specifications

Crawford, Ian; Laisney, François; Preston, Ian - 2002

We develop a method for estimation of price reactions using unit value data which exploits the implicit links between quantity and unit value choices. This allows us to combine appealing Engel curve specifications with a model of unit value determination in a way which is consistent with demand...

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Estimation of Household Demand Systems with Theoretically Compatible Engel Curves and Unit Value Specifications

Preston, Ian; Laisney, François; Crawford, Ian A. - 2002

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Harmonized Indexes of Consumer Prices: Their Conceptual Foundations

Diewert, W. Erwin - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 138 (2002) IV, pp. 547-637

The Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) is the single most important indicator of inflation used by the European Central Bank. Sections 2 to 4 of the paper look at the theory of inflation indexes that could be used as target indexes of inflation. A Consumer Price Index (CPI) emerges as...

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