The representative agent bias in cost of living indices

DOI10.1111/BOER.12286MaRDI QIDQ5870189zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sutirtha Bandyopadhyay, Bharat Ramaswami

Publication date 6 January 2023

Published in Bulletin of Economic Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1111/boer.12286

zbMATH Keywords

aggregationcost of living indexcurvature biasheterogeneityplutocratic biasrepresentative agent

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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