This paper provides a brief introduction to a proposed new opportunity cost treatment of owner-occupied housing in measures of inflation for the United States. In addition, the paper introduces, and provides links to, a collection of nine other papers that discuss various aspects of the...

The main purpose of this paper is to suggest a theoretical foundation for determining what is the appropriate price that a statistical agency, such as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, should seek from domestic establishments that engage in international transactions with affiliated...

The paper illustrates how various commonly used index number formulae perform using monthly data on seasonal commodities (seven types of vegetable) that was collected by the Israeli Consumer Price Index program. The paper calculates standard Laspeyres, Paasche and Fisher indexes (fixed base and...

The paper considers some of the problems associated with the indirectly measured components of financial service outputs in the System of National Accounts (SNA), termed FISIM (Financial Intermediation Services Indirectly Measured). The paper considers how to integrate financial transactions...

The paper addresses two problems: (i) how to measure aggregate real output and inflation for a group of countries and (ii) how to construct measures of real GDP for a group of countries where the country measures of real GDP are comparable across time and space. In order to address the second...