Fourteenth meeting hosted by Statistics Japan, Tokyo, 20 - 22 May, 2015
Report of the meeting
Session 1 - Scanner Data and Alternative Elementary Indexes
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Eniko Gabor, Philip Vermeulen -
New evidence on elementary index bias
paperpresentation -
Claude Lamboray, Frances Krsinich -
A modification of the GEKS index when product turnover is high
paperpresentation -
Satoshi Imai, Erwin Diewert, Chihiro Shimizu -
Consumer Price Index Biases -Elementary Index Biases vs. Sampling Biases
paperpresentation
Room documents
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Antonio Chessa -
Towards a generic price index method for scanner data in the Dutch CPI
paperpresentation
Session 2 - Online Prices and Web Scraping
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Ragnhild Nygaard -
The use of online prices in the Norwegian Consumer Price Index
paperpresentation -
Ingolf Boettcher -
Automatic data collection on the Internet (web scraping)
paperpresentation -
Frances Krsinich -
Price indexes from online data using the fixed-effects window-splice (FEWS) index
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Alberto Cavallo -
Are Online and Offline Prices Different? (Paper not publically available)
paperpresentation
Session 3 - Scanner Data and New Methods for Constructing Indexes
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Satoshi Imai, Tsutomu Watanabe -
Replicating Japanese CPI Using Scanner Data
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Australian Bureau of Statistics -
Using transactions data to enhance the Australian CPI
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Kevin Fox, Iqbal Syed -
Price Discounts and the Measurement of Inflation
paperpresentation
Room documents
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Jan de Haan -
Rolling Year Time Dummy Indexes and the Choice of Splicing Method
paperpresentation
Session 4 - Topic in Index Construction
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Pedro Ferreira, Jose Gondin, Andre Braz, Juliana Carneiro -
Applying the daily inflation to forecast the Broad Consumer Price Index (IPCA)
paperpresentation -
Ning Huang, Waruna Wimalaratne, Brent Pollard -
Choice of index number formula and Upper level substitution bias in the Canadian CPI
paperpresentation -
Ning Huang, Waruna Wimalaratne, Brent Pollard -
The Effects of the Frequency and Implementation Lag of Basket Updates on the Canadian CPI
paperpresentation -
Jess Diamond, Kota Watanabe, Tsutomu Watanabe -
Estimating Consumer Price Inflation by Household (Paper not publically available)
paperpresentation
Session 5 - Housing Price Indexes and Rental Price Indexes
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Masato Higashi, Masahiro Higo, Aki Ono -
How can we estimate the quality deterioration with time in the rental service of office buildings in Japanese Services Producer Price Index?
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Statistics Bureau of Japan -
Analysis of Rent Prices of Rental Housing by Year of Construction
paperpresentation
Room documents
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Faouzi Tarkhani -
Analytical Consumer Price Indexes for Owned Accommodation
paperpresentation
Session 6 - Property Price Indexes
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Chihiro Shimizu, Satoshi Imai, Erwin Diewert -
New Estimates for the Price of Housing in the Japanese CPI: Nominal Rigidity of Rents
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Kate Burnett-Isaacs -
Using Hedonics to Create Land and Structure Indexes for the Ottawa Condominium Market
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Jens Mehrhoff -
How should we measure residential property prices to inform policy makers? (Paper not publically available)
paperpresentation
Session 7 - Integrated Price Statistics and Measuring Regional Growth and Inflation
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Prasada Rao, Alicia N. Rambaldi, Bert M. Balk -
On Measuring Regional or Global Growth and Inflation
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Statistics Bureau of Japan -
Methodologies of Compiling Consumer Price Indices in Asian Countries
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Paulo Picchetti -
A measure of core inflation based on dynamyc hierarchical factor models
paperpresentation
Room documents
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Jorge A. Reyes-Moreno -
Communication Mechanisms, accessibility and transparency of the data used in the price indices in Mexico
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Kari Manninen -
Experimental Aggregate GCC Consumer Price Change Estimates
paperpresentation
Session 8 - New Methods for Quality Adjustment
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Frances Krsinich -
Implementation of consumer electronics scanner data in the New Zealand CPI
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Patrick Sillard -
Scanner data and quality adjustment
paperpresentation
Room documents
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James L.Y. Cheng -
Quality Adjustment of Second-hand Motor Vehicle - Application of Hedonic Approach in Hong Kong's Consumer Price Index
paperpresentation
Session 9 - The Treatment of Seasonal Data in CPI
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Statistics Bureau of Japan -
The new procedure for calculating seasonal items indices in Japanese chained CPI
paperpresentation
Session 10 - Topic in Price Measurement
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Peter Nilsson, Martin Kullendorff -
Consumer Price Index with constant tax - the Swedish approach
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Statistics Bureau of Japan -
Revision of the CPI Items for 2015-base
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Thomas Stapleford -
Price Indexes, Political Judgments, and the Challenge of Democratic Control
paperpresentation
Session 11 - Topic in Price Measurement
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Jan de Haan -
A Framework for Large Scale Use of Scanner Data in the Dutch CPI
paperpresentation