Weighting bias and inflation in the time of COVID-19: evidence from Swiss transaction data

Sharp changes in consumer expenditure may bias inflation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using public data from debit card transactions, I quantify these changes in consumer spending, update CPI basket weights and construct an alternative price index to measure the effect of the COVID-induced weightin...

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Autor principal: Seiler, Pascal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2020
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7493696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32959014
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41937-020-00057-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7493696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32959014
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41937-020-00057-7

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