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Core Inflation Measures for Pakistan

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  • Sadia Tahir

    (State Bank of Pakistan)

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The concept of core inflation is to purge the components of transitory and nonmonetary changes from the CPI basket. This is all the more desirable when distribution of price changes departs from normality, as is the case in Pakistan as well as in other countries. Some of the alternative measures of core inflation are constructed in this paper and it is found that trim-based measure compares favorably with those based on methods of excluding fixed items from the basket of CPI.

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  • Sadia Tahir, 2006. "Core Inflation Measures for Pakistan," SBP Research Bulletin, State Bank of Pakistan, Research Department, vol. 2, pages 319-342.
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    Keywords

    Consumer Price Index; Core Inflation; Pakistan;
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    JEL classification:

    • C10 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - General
    • C43 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Index Numbers and Aggregation
    • E03 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Behavioral Macroeconomics

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