Sources of Bias and Solutions to Bias in the Consumer Price Index

By Jerry A. Hausman. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Marketing

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Citations in the corpus

• Consumer shopping behavior: how much do consumers save? (2009, background): “These biases and their implications for national statistical agencies have been well-documented, including in this journal by Boskin, Dulberger, Gordon, Griliches, and Jorgenson (1998), Deaton (1998), Hausman (2003), and Schultze (2003).”
• The Distributional Consequences of Large Devaluations (2017, background): “Substitution bias and the Across effect One well-known limitation of Laspeyres price indices is that they overstate how price changes affect welfare due to the substitution bias (see, e.g. Hausman, 2003).”
• Lost in Transit: Product Replacement Bias and Pricing to Market (2012, unknown): “Similarly, Bils and Klenow (2001), Hausman (2003), Nordhaus (1998), Pakes (2003) and Bils (2005), have emphasized the importance of the new goods bias in distorting measured inflation and economic growth.”