Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/103624 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Citation: 
[Journal:] Econometrics [ISSN:] 2225-1146 [Volume:] 1 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] MDPI [Place:] Basel [Year:] 2013 [Pages:] 32-52
Publisher: 
MDPI, Basel
Abstract: 
The recent volatile behaviour of U.K. inflation has been officially attributed to a sequence of 'unusual' price changes, prompting renewed interest in the construction of measures of 'core inflation', from which such unusual price changes may be down-weighted or even excluded. This paper proposes a new approach to constructing core inflation based on detailed analysis of the temporal stochastic structure of the individual prices underlying a particular index. This approach is illustrated using the section structure of the U.K. retail price index (RPI), providing a number of measures of core inflation that can be automatically calculated and updated to provide both a current assessment and forecasts of the underlying inflation rate in the U.K.
Subjects: 
core inflation
index numbers
signal extraction
time series modelling
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Document Type: 
Article

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