Price Indexes in Time and Space: Methods and Practice

By Luigi Biggeri

Book Overview

Consumer Price Indexes Time-Space Integration.- Are Integration and Comparison Between CPIs and PPPs Feasible?.- Retrospective Approximations of Superlative Price Indexes for Years Where Expenditure Data Is Unavailable.- Harmonized Cross Region and Cross Country CPI Time-Space Integration in the Euro-Zone.- Consumer Price Indexes in Space.- Modelling Spatially Correlated Error Structures in the Time-Space Extrapolation of Purchasing Power Parities.- Price Indexes across Space and Time and the Stochastic Properties of Prices.- Intra-National Price Level Differentials: The Italian Experience.- Subindexes.- Consumer Price Indexes: An Analysis of Heterogeneity Across Sub-Populations.- Price Dispersion: The Case of "Pasta".- Measuring the Production of Non-Market Services.- Price Indexes in National Accounts.- Total Factor Productivity Surpluses and Purchasing Power Transfers: An Application to the Italian Economy.- Jointly Consistent Price and Quantity Comparisons and the Geo-Logarithmic Family of Price Indexes.- Price Indexes in Financial Markets.- Common Trends in Financial Markets.- An Application of Index Numbers Theory to Interest Rates.- Sector Price Indexes in Financial Markets: Methodological Issues.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3790828149
• ISBN13: 9783790828146
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Physica-Verlag
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"