This paper presents an indirect approach to investigate the possible existence of measurement error bias in the … bias in the UK, nor for Italy prior to the introduction of the Euro. Since January 2002, however, the inflation rate in …

We assess the role of measurement error in minimum wage evaluations when the treatment variable - the bite - is … measurement error derived from a record linkage of survey wages and administrative data. On the individual-level treatment effects … level does not fully alleviate the bias. In fact, the magnitude and direction of the bias depend on the size of the …

Current HICP measurement practices produce an upward bias of about one-ninth of a percentage point in German inflation … the euro area HICP. The measurement of the German HICP is impaired by the extrapolation of expenditure weights, and the …

living standards. Our findings indicate that CPI bias has caused a substantial understatement of the growth performance of … the Russian economy during the transition. Even just allowing household final consumption to be deflated with bias, we … find that the level of real per capita GDP in 2001 may be understated by up to thirty percent compared with using a bias …

points. This was due to several measurement errors in the CPI. One of them is called quality change bias. We compare two … methods in this paper which can be used to correct for quality change bias, namely the hedonic method and a method based on …

The paper reviews the sources of "Upward bias" and "Downward bias" in the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) and discusses … in terms of differing statistical methods. -- Consumer Price Index ; Economic Growth ; Statistical bias ; Statistical …

Index. The attractiveness stems from the ability to be able to control for chain drift bias. Consensus on two key issues has …

trends at different points in their life cycle then matched sample methods may introduce bias if the life cycle movement in … pricing effects and then examines the bias it can introduce in measured inflation. A large US supermarket scanner data set for … change is important across a range of products and cities. To explore the bias introduced by these movements we use …

reconsidering the supposed bias of the Consumer Price Index, its consequences, and consequences related to economic decision making …