research on related issues. Based on recent research, the author suggest that the bias estimate for 1995-96 should have been 1 ….2 to 1.3 percentage points, not 1.1 points. He estimates that the upward bias in the CPI has declined from the revised 1 …. Allowing for these, he concludes that the current upward bias in the US CPI is at least 1.0 percentage points per year. …

upward CPI bias, and discusses how these results eventually lead to the appointment of the Boskin Commission in 1995. He also … corresponding to the categories of bias identified by the Commission: upper and lower level substitution bias, quality change and … new products,and outlet bias. These changes included the introduction of a chained CPI (CCPI-U), the introduction of more …

its widely cited 1.1 percentage points CPI bias figure. The author also argues that the Commission ignored the possibility … that quality improvements could actually produce a net downward bias to CPI components because the implicit quality …

The author supports the type of the back-of-the-envelope calculations of CPI bias that the Commission used so …

percentage point upward bias in price changes results in a one percentage point downward bias in real output growth and by … consequent productivity growth. An upward bias in price indexes implies that productivity growth is being underestimated. …

on the average difference between the price option and its present average value at maturity (the bias), and tries to … detect some temporal regularities in the pattern of this bias. We found some very surprising almost-periodic patterns for the … bias, in particular for the long-time maturities (not so clearly for the puts), as studied by spectral analysis. Le prix d …

Decades of accumulated knowledge empowers our quest to de-bias human cognition. However, I propose that improvement … cognitive bias as well as on the methods of de-biasing, but extends them by synthesizing a coherent theory. It contributes to …) How to de-bias? (c) Why does de-biasing have limitations? (d) Where to channel de-biasing efforts so as to reduce the …