Title A framework for price statistics / prepared by Kimberly D. Zieschang

Published [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, Statistics Department, 2000 ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (45 pages) Series IMF working paper ; WP/00/24 IMF working paper ; WP/00/24. Summary 1. The four principal price indices in the system of economic statistics-the Producer Price Index (PPI), the Consumer Price Index (CPI), and the Export and Import Price Indices (XPI and MPT)-are well-known and closely watched indicators of macroeconomic performance. They are direct indicators of the purchasing power of money in various types of transactions and other flows involving goods and services. As such, they are also used as deflators in providing summary measures of the volume of goods and services produced and consumed. Consequently, these indices are important tools in the design and conduct of the monetary and fiscal policy of the government, but they are also of great utility in informing economic decisions throughout the private sector. They do not, or should not, comprise merely a collection of unrelated price indicators, but provide instead an integrated view of price developments pertaining to production, consumption, and international transactions in goods and services. By implication, the meaningfulness of all of these indices derives in no small measure from the meaningfulness of the value aggregates to which each refers Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 45) Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Prices -- Statistics Price indexes. Consumer price indexes. Wholesale price indexes. Imports -- Statistics Exports -- Statistics National income -- Accounting. Index numbers (Economics) Revenue -- Accounting. Revenue -- Accounting Consumer price indexes Exports Imports Index numbers (Economics) National income -- Accounting Price indexes Prices Wholesale price indexes Genre/Form Statistics Form Electronic book Author International Monetary Fund. Statistics Department, issuing body. ISBN 1451891970 9781451891973 1281605026 9781281605023 1462330908 9781462330904 1452775524 9781452775524 9786613785718 6613785717 9781451844139 1451844131 ISSN 2227-8885

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