Seventeenth meeting hosted by The National Statistical Institute (Istat) and the Italian Central Bank (Banca d’Italia), Rome, 7 - 10 June, 2022
Report of the meeting
Session 1 - Expenditure weights in the CPI. Including new data sources, frequency and timeliness
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Thomas A. Knetsch, Patrick Schwind, Sebastian Weinand -
The impact of weight shifts on inflation: Evidence for the euro area HICP
paper presentation -
Gerry O’Donnell, Clément Yélou -
The Adjusted Price Index and Monthly Adjusted Consumer Expenditure Basket Weights
paper presentation -
Julika Herzberg, Thomas A. Knetsch, Dilyana Popova, Patrick Schwind, Sebastian Weinand -
Empirical findings on upper-level aggregation issues in the HICP
paper presentation
Session 2 - Going beyond CPI - Alternative/complementary measures of inflation ad cost of living
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Robert J. Hill, Daniel Melser, Alicia Rambaldi, Michael Scholz -
Combining Price Indices in Temporal Hierarchies
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Rohan Draper, Nicklas Elversøe, Melanie Santiago, Ruth Vaizner -
Alignment of Methodology and Scope between Services Producer Price Indices (SPPIs) and Consumer Price Indices (CPIs): developing a framework for using CPIs in SPPI calculation
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Peter Zadrozny -
Cost of Living Index of an Estimated Generalized CES Utility Function that Accounts for Changes in Preferences for and Qualities of Goods
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W. Erwin Diewert, Yoel Finkel, Doron Sayag -
Seasonal Products
paper presentation
Session 3 - New data sources and new techniques to compile price indices, including the implications on index formulas (Part 1)
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Kjersti Nyborg Hov, Ragnhild Nygaard -
New ways of measuring price development on consumer electronics
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Kozo Ueda, Kota Watanabe, Tsutomu Watanabe -
Household Inventory, Temporally Sales, and Price Indices
paper presentation -
Matthew Stansfield, Frances Krsinich -
A MAP for the future of prices indexes at Stats NZ
paperpresentation -
Ben Hillman, Alex Rose, Helen Sands -
What do missing prices mean for the choice of index number method with alternative data
paper presentation -
Paul Schreyer -
Some thoughts on (free) digital products, consumer prices and GDP
paperpresentation
Session 4 - New data sources and new techniques to compile price indices, including the implications on index formulas (Part 2)
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Naohito Abe, D.S. Prasada Rao -
Scanner Data, Chain Drift, Superlative Price Indices and the Redding-Weinstein CES Common Varieties Price Index
paper presentation -
Joel Liffner, L. Merrington, Catherine Smyth, Julian Whiting -
Stress testing multilateral price index methods: Transactions data and stockpiling during the COVID-19 pandemic
paper presentation -
Antonio Chessa, Florin Barb, Stefan Boumans -
Choice of window length and linking method for extending multilateral index series over time
paperpresentation -
Alessandro Brunetti, Stefania Fatello, Federico Polidoro, Tiziana Laureti -
The use of weighted GEKS for the calculation of consumer price indices: an experimental application to Italian scanner data
paper presentation -
Botir Radjabov, Ken Van Loon -
Seasonal Products and Multilateral Methods
paper presentation -
Jacco Daalmans -
Multilateral indices and the relaunch problem: product clustering and alternative solutions
paper presentation -
Claude Lamboray -
Matching, grouping and linking: What impact does the product specification have on a Fisher price index?
paper presentation -
Tanya Flower -
Communication of the UN Task Team on Scanner Data
paperpresentation
Session 5 - Measuring of housing in the CPI
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Alan Bentley, Frances Krsinich -
Timely Rental Price Indices for thin markets: Revisiting a chained property fixed-effects estimator
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W. Erwin Diewert, Chihiro Shimizu -
Measuring the Services of Durables and Owner Occupied Housing
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Corinne Becker Vermeulen, Manuel Brand -
Bringing the Hedonic-repricing method up to date to adjust for qualitative differences in the residential real estate price index
paper presentation -
Patrick Sabourin, Faouzi Tarkhani -
The Cost of a House versus the Cost of Housing: evaluating different approaches to measuring owned accommodation in the Canadian CPI
paper presentation -
Alessandro Brunetti, Orietta Patacchia, Federico Polidoro -
The use of administrative data for Italian private housing rental prices index compilation
paper presentation
Session 6 - New data sources and new techniques to compile price indices, including the implications on index formulas (Part 3)
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Liam Greenhough, Hazel Martindale, Helen Sands -
Modernising the measurement of clothing price indices using web-scraped data: classification and product grouping
paper presentation -
Adrien Montbroussous -
Web scraping of booking.com: exploring new data and methodology for the hotel service consumer price index
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Helen Sands -
Integration of alternative data into consumer price statistics the UK approach
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Anders Norberg, Can Tongur -
Balancing the Swedish CPI
paper presentation -
Jacek Białek -
The general class of multilateral indices and its two special cases
paper presentation
Session 7 - Challenging areas of measurement (Digitalisation and shared economy) and quality adjustment (Part 1)
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Kozo Ueda, Kota Watanabe, Tsutomu Watanabe -
Price Setting in Online and Offline Markets Evidence from Korea
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Jan-Oliver Menz, Elisabeth Wieland, Jens Mehrhoff -
Estimating the Impact of Quality Adjustment on Consumer Price Inflation
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Bernhard Goldhammer, Cristina Conflitti, Fabio Rumler, Michaela Maier -
Is there a measurement bias from quality adjustment in Austria and Italy?
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Jens Mehrhoff -
Le substitution bias est mort, vive le substitution bias
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Carsten Boldsen -
Information on Group of Experts 2023
paperpresentation
Session 8 - Challenging areas of measurement (Digitalisation and shared economy) and quality adjustment (Part 2)
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W. Erwin Diewert -
Quality Adjustment Methods
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Kevin Roche, Lance Taylor, Roobina Keshishbanoosy -
Applying advanced techniques to the estimation of Multipurpose Digital Devices price indices
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