A newly identified source of potential CPI bias: weekly versus monthly unit value price indexes

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2016.02.022MaRDI QIDQ1668199zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors W. Erwin Diewert, Kevin J. Fox, Jan de Haan

Publication date 3 September 2018

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.02.022

zbMATH Keywords

aggregationelementary price indexesinflation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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