Add to ORKGThe Consumer Price Index ( CPI) is now used increasingly as the major reference point in adjusting pay and social benefits to "compensate" for inflation. This raises many interesting questions about the precise meaning of compensation, its feasibility and its effects as well as the suitability of the CPI for the purpose. This paper, which is part of work in progress on these issues, examines how price changes affect different types of household by virtue of differences in their expenditure patterns
Chapter one examines the cyclical behavior of low-income versus high-income household price indices ...
Chapter one examines the cyclical behavior of low-income versus high-income household price indices ...
Consumer Price Index (CPI) of a particular region is primarily calculated through aggregation of ind...
Aggregate inflation measures such as the Consumer Price Index seek to capture the im-pact on househo...
This paper investigates the effect demographic-specific inflation rates on the measured well being o...
By monitoring the price changes experienced by some representative household, consumer price indices...
The consumer price index is an important parameter to measure inflation. It reflects the relative ch...
Supportive policies that lead to significant relative price changes have widespread impact on income...
The consumer price index is probably the most widely used measure of inflation. Changes i n the inde...
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is widely used to adjust wages and federal benefits as an offset to i...
The accurate measure of prices is fundamental to almost every important issue in economics, from mea...
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 1997 National Bureau of Economic Research Summ...
As inflation approaches zero, it becomes increasingly important to examine the price indices on whic...
In this paper the author demonstrates that the change in cost of living index (CLI) can be decompose...
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the most widely used inflation indicator. The CPI measures the dyn...
Chapter one examines the cyclical behavior of low-income versus high-income household price indices ...
Chapter one examines the cyclical behavior of low-income versus high-income household price indices ...
Consumer Price Index (CPI) of a particular region is primarily calculated through aggregation of ind...
Aggregate inflation measures such as the Consumer Price Index seek to capture the im-pact on househo...
This paper investigates the effect demographic-specific inflation rates on the measured well being o...
By monitoring the price changes experienced by some representative household, consumer price indices...
The consumer price index is an important parameter to measure inflation. It reflects the relative ch...
Supportive policies that lead to significant relative price changes have widespread impact on income...
The consumer price index is probably the most widely used measure of inflation. Changes i n the inde...
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is widely used to adjust wages and federal benefits as an offset to i...
The accurate measure of prices is fundamental to almost every important issue in economics, from mea...
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 1997 National Bureau of Economic Research Summ...
As inflation approaches zero, it becomes increasingly important to examine the price indices on whic...
In this paper the author demonstrates that the change in cost of living index (CLI) can be decompose...
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the most widely used inflation indicator. The CPI measures the dyn...
Chapter one examines the cyclical behavior of low-income versus high-income household price indices ...
Chapter one examines the cyclical behavior of low-income versus high-income household price indices ...
Consumer Price Index (CPI) of a particular region is primarily calculated through aggregation of ind...