Measurement Errors in the Consumer Price Index: Perspectives on Numerical Targets for Price Stability in Major Economies
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Keywords
Consumer Price Index; CPI; Measurement errors; Upper Bias; Quality Adjustment; Service Price;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C43 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Index Numbers and Aggregation
- E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MON-2025-05-26 (Monetary Economics)
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