Eliminating chain drift in price indexes based on scanner data

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 36-46

  De Haan, Jan ^a   Van Der Grient, Heymerik A ^a  

^a STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chain drift; Consumer price index (CPI); Multilateral index number methods; Scanner data; Superlative indexes

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION LEVEL; ATTRITION RATE; CONSUMER PRICE INDEX; DRIFT-FREE; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; MULTILATERAL INDEX NUMBER METHODS; PRICE INDEX; PRODUCT GROUPS; SCANNER DATA; SUPERLATIVE INDEXES;

COSTS; NUMBER THEORY; RETAIL STORES;

SCANNING;

EID: 79952454318     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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