Retrospectives: Price Indexes and General Exchange Values
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A Note on the E®ects of Extreme Price Values on Price Indexes
1. Introduction Many economists have come to favor the \superla-tive" Fisher and TÄ ornqvist price indexes over the more traditional Laspeyres formula (see, for example , Diewert 1996, Aizcorbe and Jackman 1993). The US Bureau of Labor Statistics is now planning the release of a new price index series targeting the TÄ ornqvist formula. The choice between the Fisher and TÄ ornqvist formulas may ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Economic Perspectives
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0895-3309
DOI: 10.1257/jep.12.1.197