The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a indicator used by Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS) which describes the average change in prices paid urban consumers for market basket of consumer goods and services certain period. case on Probolinggo City, if increase then describe inflation occurs conversely. City not fixed. This study to forecast that results can be as one considerations carrying out economic ...

CPI Detailed Report, November 2006 Louise Leonard Campbell is an economist in the Office of Consumer Prices and Price Indexes, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Email: [email protected] This paper examines the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) past design and results of the age-bias regression model, as well as its current design. This narrative describes what has been done and present...

Comparing Cournot and Bertrand Equilibria Revisited by Jim Y. Jin This paper compares Cournot and Bertrand equilibria with mixed products, linear demand and cost functions. It is found that a firm's price (output) need not be higher (lower) in Cournot equilibrium. However, given any number of firms and a mixture of complement and substitute products, every firm's price margin/output ratio is al...

While some researchers report significant benefits resulting from investments in technology, others report no measurable impact whatsoever. Economists suggest this inconclusiveness may be a result of inadequacy of the metrics. In particular, conflicting findings are often related to the inherent difficulty in defining and measuring value. These debates are riddled with theoretical and philosoph...

Mark Vendemia is an economist in the Branch of Information and Analysis, Division of Consumer Expenditure Surveys, Bureau of Labor Statistics. MARK VENDEMIA Despite the heightened awareness of health problems associated with using tobacco products, Americans continue to spend large amounts of money on these items. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS or the Bureau) Consumer Expend...