Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/90861 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. W99/15
Publisher: 
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
This paper uses revealed preference restrictions and nonparametric statistical methods to bound true cost-of-living indices. These are compared to the popular price indices including the type used to calculated the UK RPI. This is used to assess the method of calculating the RPI for substitution bias.
JEL: 
C43
D11
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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