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Kritik internationaler Empfehlungen zur Indexformel für Preisindizes in der amtlichen Statistik / A Critique of International Recommendations Concerning Price Index Formulas: Einige Bemerkungen zur ökonomischen Theorie der Indexzahlen und zu Kettenindizes / A Critique of International Recommendations Concerning Price Index Formulas

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  • Lippe Peter von der

    (Universität GH Essen, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, D-45117 Essen)

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The System of National Accounts (SNA) as well as the Boskin Report inconclusively discarded the idea of pure price comparison in favour of index formulas for which a meaningful interpretation is difficult to be found. The shortcomings of the "economic theory" approach followed in the Boskin Report (in addition to ideas expressly intended to simply lower inflation rates) and the various disadvantages of chain indices in view of their unsatisfactory axiomatic and deflation properties are demonstrated in detail. Implausibilities of chaining and "explaining" (as recommended in SNA) lack of additivity in deflation will drive official statistics into unnecessary difficulties.

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  • Lippe Peter von der, 1999. "Kritik internationaler Empfehlungen zur Indexformel für Preisindizes in der amtlichen Statistik / A Critique of International Recommendations Concerning Price Index Formulas: Einige Bemerkungen zur ök," Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), De Gruyter, vol. 218(3-4), pages 385-414, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:jns:jbstat:v:218:y:1999:i:3-4:p:385-414
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