Download or read book Housing Component of the Consumer Price Index written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Inflation and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Consumer Price Index written by Phillip Cagan and published by A E I Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research paper on limitations of and alternatives to consumer price price index as a cost of living measurement in the USA - asseses merits and demerits as an index for escalating wages, social security and old age benefits, describes purpose, uses and construction, compares with alternative measures of price changes, and suggests changes for improvement by including housing costs and mortgage interests and updating the weight base more frequently, etc. References and statistical tables.

Download or read book Toward a More Accurate Measure of the Cost of Living written by United States. Congress. Senate. Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Housing Component of the Consumer Price Index written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Inflation and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Final Report of the Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index written by United States. Congress. Senate. Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ggd 96 166 Consumer Price Index written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GGD-96-166 Consumer Price Index: Cost-of-Living Concepts and the Housing and Medical Care Components

Download or read book The Consumer Price Index written by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Changes in the Consumer Price Index written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Population and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Consumer Price Index written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2004-08-30 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the measure of price changes that was used in FY 1995 to adjust for inflation $441 billion in Fed. spending and $595 billion of Fed. tax receipts. This document reports on the opinions of experts to: determine if a change made in the early 1980s to the housing component in the CPI made it either more or less suitable for use as a cost-of-living measurements; and identify the advantages and disadvantages of changing the current measurement of medical care costs to an approach that more closely matches a cost-of-living measure.

Download or read book Proposed changes in the consumer price index written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Entitlements, Uncontrollables, and Indexing and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Consumer Price Index Manual written by International Labour Office and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2004-08-25 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The consumer price index (CPI) measures the rate at which prices of consumer goods and services change over time. It is used as a key indicator of economic performance, as well as in the setting of monetary and socio-economic policy such as indexation of wages and social security benefits, purchasing power parities and inflation measures. This manual contains methodological guidelines for statistical offices and other agencies responsible for constructing and calculating CPIs, and also examines underlying economic and statistical concepts involved. Topics covered include: expenditure weights, sampling, price collection, quality adjustment, sampling, price indices calculations, errors and bias, organisation and management, dissemination, index number theory, durables and user costs.

Download or read book Relative Importance of Components in the Consumer Price Indexes written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book News written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-12 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book House Prices and Inflation written by John A. Tuccillo and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Targeting Inflation written by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most observers of the Federal Reserve are willing to credit it with success at achieving low and stable rates of inflation. Many do not even question that the Fed's primary concern should be fighting inflation. However, the targets for monetary policy adopted by the Fed in recent years have not proven to be closely correlated with inflation, and commentators criticize the Fed's apparent predilection to choose whichever target appears to be pointing in the "right" direction. In the search for a target that seems to be closely correlated with inflation, some theorists and policymakers have advocated the use of a price index--most notably the consumer price index (CPI)--as both the target and the goal of monetary policy. Executive Director Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Research Associate L. Randall Wray argue in this Public Policy Brief that the CPI deviates in several important respects from an ideal theoretical measure of inflation. An ideal measure would, first, accurately reflect market-caused price increases and, second, potentially be under the control of monetary policy. The authors show that the CPI fails in both respects. Papadimitriou and Wray attempt to determine which components of the CPI have tended to pull up the index and to analyze the avenues through which monetary policy might attenuate the rate of price increase of these individual components. Their investigation is consistent with recent concerns over apparent biases in the CPI when used as a cost-of-living index, but their analysis extends beyond such concerns; they also focus on how and why the CPI is not appropriate as a target or goal of monetary policy because the transmission mechanisms through which monetary policy is thought to affect the CPI are tenuous at best. The authors argue that this is due in part to the fact that components of the CPI involve "imputed" values that are largely unconnected with those fundamental market forces likely to be influenced by Fed policy. Papadimitriou and Wray note that although "it is beyond the scope of this Public Policy Brief to examine all of the components of the CPI, we are convinced that use of any index of price changes will be fraught with difficulties similar to those outlined here." The anomalies they find in the CPI's housing component data are not unique; rather, they "suspect there are other important anomalies reflected in the CPI that make it a poor measure of inflation to be used in monetary policy formation." Therefore, careful reconsideration of an alternative ultimate target, such as the rate of economic growth or the unemployment rate, is warranted. However, given the uncertainties involved in the choice of such ultimate targets, the authors think it would be premature for the Fed to commit to any particular goal, especially one of "price stability." Moreover, because the evidence presented here sheds doubt on how central banks might fight inflation or if they can reduce it, and because there is no credible evidence that a moderate rise in interest rates causes smooth curtailment of spending plans, the authors conclude that this is an inappropriate time to amend the Employment Act of 1946 and the Humphrey-Hawkins Act of 1978 and to require the Fed to focus on price stability and to ignore other important economic indicators of our nation's well-being.

Download or read book Price Index Concepts and Measurement written by W. Erwin Diewert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although inflation is much feared for its negative effects on the economy, how to measure it is a matter of considerable debate that has important implications for interest rates, monetary supply, and investment and spending decisions. Underlying many of these issues is the concept of the Cost-of-Living Index (COLI) and its controversial role as the methodological foundation for the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Price Index Concepts and Measurements brings together leading experts to address the many questions involved in conceptualizing and measuring inflation. They evaluate the accuracy of COLI, a Cost-of-Goods Index, and a variety of other methodological frameworks as the bases for consumer price construction.

Download or read book Consumer Price Index Measure Used in Calculating Social Security Cost of living Adjustments written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Social Security and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: