We define the plutocratic bias as the difference between inflation measured according to the current official CPI and a … democratic index in which all households receive the same weight. We estimate that during the 1990s the plutocratic bias in Spain … mean absolute bias is significantly larger, 0.090. We can explain most of the oscillations experimented by the plutocratic …

The recent Boskin Commission Report (1996) underscores a significant upward bias in CPI measurement in the United …

Labor market indicators are critical for policymakers, but measurement error in labor force survey data is known to be … which respondents misreport their true labor force status. Once I correct for measurement error using a latent variable …

satellite-recorded nighttime lights as an additional measurement of true GDP per capita, we provide a statistical framework, in … results for measurement error models to identify and estimate the nonlinear relationship between nighttime lights and true GDP …

represent a major improvement, several measurement or interpretation issues remain, reflecting various potential index number …

This paper provides an overview of statistical measurement issues relating to alternative measures of core inflation …, and the criteria for choosing among them. The approaches to measurement considered include exclusion-based methods …