Distributional aspects of the quality change bias in the CPI: evidence from Spain.

DOI10.1016/S0165-1765(02)00020-4MaRDI QIDQ1603882zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Javier Ruiz-Castillo, Eduardo Ley, Mario Izquierdo

Publication date 15 July 2002

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0165-1765(02)00020-4

zbMATH Keywords

CPIMoney inequalityPlutocratic gapPrice indexQuality bias

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

Recommendations

• Measurement Biases in Consumer Price Indexes
• A newly identified source of potential CPI bias: weekly versus monthly unit value price indexes
• The representative agent bias in cost of living indices
• The ambiguous effect of new and improved goods on the cost of living
• Do higher prices for new goods reflect quality growth or inflation?

Cites work

• Additivity and the entropy concept: An axiomatic approach to inequality measurement
• Inequality Decomposition by Population Subgroups

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