Underlying Inflation: Concepts, Measurement and Performance
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Keywords
underlying inflation; core inflation; trimmed mean; weighted median; volatility-weighted measures;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C43 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Index Numbers and Aggregation
- E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBA-2005-07-25 (Central Banking)
- NEP-MAC-2005-07-25 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-MON-2005-07-25 (Monetary Economics)
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