Price Indexes in Time and Space: Methods and Practice: Contributions to Statistics

Consumer Price Indexes Time-Space Integration.- Are Integration and Comparison Between CPIs and PPPs Feasible?.- Retrospective Approximations of Superlative Price Indexes for Years Where Expenditure Data Is Unavailable.- Harmonized Cross Region and Cross Country CPI Time-Space Integration in the Euro-Zone.- Consumer Price Indexes in Space.- Modelling Spatially Correlated Error Structures in the Time-Space Extrapolation of Purchasing Power Parities.- Price Indexes across Space and Time and the Stochastic Properties of Prices.- Intra-National Price Level Differentials: The Italian Experience.- Subindexes.- Consumer Price Indexes: An Analysis of Heterogeneity Across Sub-Populations.- Price Dispersion: The Case of “Pasta”.- Measuring the Production of Non-Market Services.- Price Indexes in National Accounts.- Total Factor Productivity Surpluses and Purchasing Power Transfers: An Application to the Italian Economy.- Jointly Consistent Price and Quantity Comparisons and the Geo-Logarithmic Family of Price Indexes.- Price Indexes in Financial Markets.- Common Trends in Financial Markets.- An Application of Index Numbers Theory to Interest Rates.- Sector Price Indexes in Financial Markets: Methodological Issues.

From the reviews:
“This edited volume interplays with current topics in price index numbers and practice. Further, it provides comparisons between price index numbers and purchasing power parities and uses updated European database. … The intended audience includes both researchers and practitioners, and even officials who are involved with this subject. … In summary, the volume has a uniform structure and it contains useful information and applications in a systematic manner.” (Technometrics, Vol. 52 (4), November, 2010)

This book deals with the currently most relevant topics in price index numbers theory and practice. The problem of the harmonization of Consumer Price Indexes (CPIs) and the time-space integration of baskets is analyzed at the EU-zone level, with methodological and practical proposals on how to proceed for an overall treatment of the matter. Another issue is comparisons between Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs) and CPIs. Likewise, the construction of sub-indexes for households, economic and social groups is investigated, in order to obtain specific inflation measurement instruments. The book provides evidence from the most updated databases. Among the other issues treated in this book are spatial comparisons of price levels through PPPs and the international comparisons of macroeconomic aggregates, a re-consideration of index numbers theory, the measurement of production in non-market services, deflation problems, and price indexes in financial markets.

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras