This paper deals with the construction of statistics for area or zone totals for groups of countries. It discusses various ways to construct volume and value series and reviews some of the implications for resulting indirect price indices. The paper then takes a more specific look at the Euro area and provides an empirical example concerning the aggregation of private final consumption for the 12 countries of the Euro area ...

Cette étude examine la construction des statistiques pour des totaux des zones, c’est à dire, des agrégats à travers un groupe des pays. Elle discute différentes façons d’arriver à des séries en valeur et en volume et elle évalue quelques implications pour des indices de prix implicites qui pourrait en résulter. Ensuite, l’étude examine d’une manière plus détaillée la zone Euro et présente un exemple empirique qui traite l’agrégation de la consommation privée finale à travers les 12 pays de la zone Euro ...

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Paper provided by OECD Statistics Directorate in its series OECD Statistics Working Papers with number 2001/2.

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1. Emanuel Mönch & Harald Uhlig, 2003. "Towards a Monthly Business Cycle Chronology for the Euro Area," SFB 649 Discussion Papers SFB649DP2005-023, Sonderforschungsbereich 649, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, revised Apr 2005. [Downloadable!]
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