Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272352 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Research Papers in Economics No. 1/22
Publisher: 
Universität Trier, Fachbereich IV - Volkswirtschaftslehre, Trier
Abstract: 
Due to outdated weighting information, a Laspeyres-based Consumer Price Index (CPI) is prone to accumulating upward bias. Therefore, the present study introduces and examines simple and transparent revision approaches that retrospectively address the source of the bias. They provide a consistent long-run time series of the CPI and they require no additional information. Furthermore, a coherent decomposition of the bias into the contributions of individual product groups is developed. In a case study, the approaches are applied to a Laspeyresbased CPI. The empirical results confirm the theoretical predictions. The proposed revision approaches are not only adoptable to most national CPIs, but also to other price level measures such as the producer price index or the import and export price indices.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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