The Consumer Price Index: A Research Agenda and Three Proposals

Journal of Economic Perspectives

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 69-78

  Pollak, Robert A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0009228804     PISSN: 08953309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/jep.12.1.69     Document Type: Article

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