Imai, Satoshi; Shimizu, Chihiro; Watanabe, Tsutomu - Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo - 2012
adopted. Our specific focus is on how inflation estimates depend on the method of outlet, product, and price sampling employed … the last ten years. We regard this dataset as the “universe” and send out (virtual) price collectors to conduct sampling … following more than sixty different sampling rules. We find that the officially released outcome can be reproduced when employing a …