Eleventh meeting hosted by Swiss Federal Statistics Office, Neuchatel, 27 - 29 May, 2009
Session 1 - Price statistics and housing market
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Rósmundur Guðnason, Guðrún R. Jónsdóttir, Lára G. Jónasdóttir -
The effect of House Market downturn on House Price Index
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Makoto Shimizu -
Hedonic Approach for House Rents in Japan
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Chihiro Shimizu, Kiyohiko G. Nishimura, Tsutomu Watanabe -
House Prices and Rents in Tokyo: A Comparison of Repeat-Sales and Hedonic Measures
paper presentation
Room documents
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Martin Ribe -
House prices in a Swedish CPI perspective
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Ingvild Johansen, Ragnhild Nygaard -
Owner-Occupied Housing in the Norwegian HICP
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Chihiro Shimizu, Kiyohiko Nishimura, Tsutomu Watanabe -
Residential Rents and Price Rigidity: Micro Structure an Macro Consequences
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Corinne Becker Vermeulen, Hans Markus Herren -
Rents in Switzerland: sampling and quality adjustment
paperpresentation
Session 2 - Weighting: quality, frequency of update, reference period, and price-updating
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John S. Greenlees, Elliot Williams -
Reconsideration of Weighting and Updating Procedures in the US CPI
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Martin Eiglsperger, Daniela Schackis -
Weights in the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices: Selected aspects from a user's perspective
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Bert M. Balk -
Lowe and Cobb-Douglas CPIs and their substitution bias
paper presentation
Room documents
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Chris Pike, Ben Nimmo, Ludeth Mariposa -
New Zealand 2006 and 2008 Consumers Price Index Reviews: Price Updating
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Stefan Linz -
Weighting of Outlets and Regions – the German Weighting System
paperpresentation
Session 3 - Price measurement for "hard to follow” products
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Patrick Kelly, Lee Everts -
Clearing out the sales: Removing a downward bias in a clothing and footwear index
paper presentation
Session 4 A - New developments in calculation methods - elementary aggregates
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Lorraine Ivancic, Kevin J.Fox, W. Erwin Diewert -
Scanner Data, Time Aggregation and the Construction of Price Indexes
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Jan de Haan, Heymerik Van Der Grient -
Eliminating Chain Drift in Price Indexes Based on Scanner Data
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Reto Müller -
Price collection with scanner data for the Swiss CPI/HICP
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Jens Mehrhoff -
Aggregate Indices and Their Corresponding Elementary Indices
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Mick Silver -
An Index Number Formula Problem: the Aggregation of Broadly Comparable Items
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Peter Von Der Lippe -
Unit Value Bias Reconsidered
paper presentation
Room documents
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Hans Wolfgang Brachinger, Michael Beer -
The Econometric Foundations of Hedonic Elementary Price Indices
paperpresentation
Session 4 B - New developments in calculation methods - elementary aggregates
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Jan de Haan, Bert M. Balk, Carsten Boldsen Hansen -
Retrospective Approximations of Superlative Price Indexes for Years where Expenditure Data is Unavailable
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W. Erwin Diewert, Marco Huwiler, Ulrich Kohli -
Retrospective Price Indices and Substitution Bias
paper presentation
Room documents
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Katrina Lindsay, Ricky Ho, Chris Pike -
New Zealand consumers price index: retrospective superlative index time series
paperpresentation
Session 5 - Core inflation: from calculation to interpretation
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Luigi Biggeri, Tiziana Laureti, Federico Polidoro -
Measuring and Interpreting core inflation: evidence from Italy
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Daniel Griffiths -
Core inflation measures produced in New Zealand
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Marco Huwiler -
Measures of core inflation in Switzerland: An evaluation of alternative calculation methods for monetary policy
paper presentation
Room documents
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Gregor W. Smith -
The Missing Links: Better Measures of Inflation and Inflation Expectations in Canada
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Walter Erwin Diewert -
Discussion of the Smith paper
paperpresentation
Session 6 - Globalisation and specialisation
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Jens Mehrhoff, Claus Christian Breuer -
Is Inflation Heterogeneously Distributed Among Income Groups?
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John Greenlees, Robert McClelland -
Misconceptions about Consumer Price Indexes: the U.S. Experience
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David Fenwick -
Ethical price indices: the case for a cost of consumption index
paper presentation
Room documents
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Jörgen Dalén -
Designing a CPI in a developing country. Some experiences
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Rosmundur Guðnason, Guðrún R. Jónsdóttir -
The impact of Financial Crises on the CPI
paper presentation