Tenth meeting hosted by Statistics Canada, Ottawa, 9 - 12 October, 2007
Session 1 - Price Measurement of specific products
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Stefan Röthlisberger -
Swiss CPI: Initial Experience with the new Medicine Price Index
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Dominque Guédès -
Fashion and Consumer Price Index
paper presentation -
Alan Chaffe, Walid Ezzaouali, Mathieu Lequain -
An Alternative Collection Method and Its Impact on Accuracy, Reliability and Efficiency of the CPI Program: The case of automobile insurance in Canada
paper presentation
Session 2 - Indices for population groups
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Greg Kurtzon, Robert McClelland -
Do the Poor Pay More, Store by Store?
paper presentation -
Yoel Finkel, Victoria Roshal -
Various CPI Aggregation Schemes: Empirical Study of Israeli Data
paper presentation -
F. Fritzer, Ernst Glatzer -
Group Specific Inflation Rates for Austrian Households
paper presentation -
Jim O’Donoghue, Matthew Powell, David Fenwick -
Personal Inflation: Perceptions And Experiences
paper presentation
Session 3 - Research on various topics
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Mick Silver -
Do Unit Value Export, Import, and Terms of Trade Indices Represent or Misrepresent Price Indices?
paper presentation -
Étienne Gagnon -
Price Setting during Low and High Inflation: Evidence from Mexico
paper presentation -
Yoel Finkel, Anna Rakhmilevich, Victoria Roshal -
Different Approaches to the Treatment of Seasonal Products: Tests on the Israeli CPI
paper presentation
Session 4 - Spatial Indices
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Bettina Aten -
Inter-Area Price Levels: An experimental approach (presented by Walter Lane, BLS)
paper presentation
Session 5 - Real Estate and Housing Indices
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Erwin Diewert -
The Paris OECD-IMF Workshop on Real Estate Price Indexes: Conclusions and Future Directions
paper presentation -
Randal Verbrugge -
Utilities Adjustment for Owners’ Equivalent Rent
paper presentation -
Alexa Olczyk, Geoff Neideck -
Measuring House Price Movements: methods, issues and some recent experiences in the Australian Context
paper presentation -
Marc Prud’Homme, Serra Erdur -
House Price Indexes at Statistics Canada: Practices and Research
paper presentation -
Martin Ribe -
Current Swedish Discussion on Housing in the CPI
paper presentation
Session 6 - Bias
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John Greenlees, Robert McClelland -
New Outlets Bias in the CPI: A Look at Recent Evidence
paper presentation -
Claus Christian Breuer -
Cost of Living Indexes for Germany
paper presentation -
Carsten Hansen -
Re-calculation of the Danish CPI 1996-2006
paper presentation -
Kim Zieschang, Mick Silver -
A Note on Long run analytical CPI series that avoid discontinuities on rebasing
paper presentation -
Ben Nimmo, Chris Pike -
Consumer Price Index: Retrospective Superlative Index and Impact of Alternative Housing Weights
paper presentation
Session 7 - Hedonics
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Erwin Diewert, Saeed Heravi, Mick Silver -
Hedonic Imputation versus Time Dummy Hedonic Indexes
paper presentation
Session 8 - CPI Manual and Handbooks
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Valentina Stoevska -
Status and Updating of the CPI Manual
paper presentation -
David Fenwick -
Supplementary Handbooks to the ILO CPI Manual: Handbook of Practical Issues on CPI Construction Confronted by Developing Countries
paper presentation
Session 9 - Quality of Price Indices
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Geoff Neideck -
A Framework for the accuracy dimension of data quality of price statistics
paper presentation -
Daniel Griffiths, Randi Johannessen -
The Statistics New Zealand and SSB Consumers Price Indexes: A Comparison
paper presentation -
Tarek Harchaoui, Justin Hume, Jennifer Withington -
Accounting for the Difference between the CPI and Personal Consumption Expenditure Deflator
paper presentation
Session 10 - Telecommunications Price Indexes
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Alexandra Beisteiner -
Evaluation of the behaviour of different methods for price measurement in the telecommunication market
paperpresentation -
Makoto Shimizu -
Telecommunications Indices in the Japanese CPI
paper presentation
Session 11 - Panel Discussion on occasion of the 10th Ottawa Group Meeting: State of CPIs and 10 meetings (and 13 years)
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David Fenwick -
The Ottawa Group – 10 Meetings on: a personal view
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Erwin Diewert -
The Ottawa Group after Ten Meetings: Future Priorities
paperpresentation -
Paul Armknecht -
Items to Consider for Member Countries’ Research Activities
paperpresentation -
Bert M. Balk -
The OG against the backdrop of 150 years price index research
paperpresentation