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Post-Laspeyres: The Case for a New Formula for Compiling Consumer Price Indexes

Author/Editor: Paul A. Armknecht, Mick Silver.

Release Date:April, 2012

Consumer price indexes (CPIs) are compiled at the higher (weighted) level using Laspeyres-type arithmetic averages. This paper questions the suitability of such formulas and considers two counterpart more...



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