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Inflation is currently low and falling in the OECD area. A side effect of these facts is that they made harder the task of price index compilers. First of all, researchers and analysts are moving their attention from aggregate price dynamics to price differentials (among products, markets,...
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Quality adjustment of price indexes affects the analysis of many sensitive economic issues, such as real growth, productivity, international competitiveness, real wages, per-capita consumption and poverty, other than inflation. Hedonic methods are often recommended and increasingly used in the...
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0,5-2,0% per year. A significant part of such a bias is found to be caused by the presence of technology products and … differentiated products in CPI. An increasing weight of these products in the Russian CPI may also lead to a substantial upward bias …. Nowadays hedonic indices are believed to be the most efficient way to reduce the bias. Following Triplett we have developed the …
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Special Issue on Measurement with Theory. The included papers in the special issue are part of a larger initiative to promote … "measurement with theory" in economics and planned to appear as special issues of other journals. A later revised draft of this …
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Estimation of spatial housing price indices requires a housing market segmentation into local sub-markets. In this paper, we use geographically weighted regression model (GWR) to take account for spatial heterogeneity of housing attribute marginal prices. Estimated marginal prices are then used...
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measurement problem: (a) Using end- of- period or period averages of the nominal exchange rate. (b) Choosing price indexes. (c) In …
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measurement problem: (a) Using end- of- period or period averages of the nominal exchange rate. (b) Choosing price indexes. (c) In …
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The primary aim of this research report is to analyse the dynamics and structure of the publications of Russian authors, as well as to define the place of Russian science in the global scientific process. Bibliometric analysis methods are the main methods for quantitative analysis of scientific...
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As financial inclusion gains popularity in developed and developing economies, there is a need for a single index, (simple in computation with little or no assumptions) that pools together the financial inclusion indicators adopted by the IMF financial access survey. The various variants of...
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a methodology to construct a Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) measurement index. Using the formulation of the index …
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