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Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, 2020
In business reference, pricing data can be particularly difficult to find especially for specific geographic regions.
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In business reference, pricing data can be particularly difficult to find especially for specific geographic regions.
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Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1941
IN ANALYZING cost of living indexes it would seem most feasible to limit the analysis to a brief discussion of time-to-time indexes, i.e., indexes which measure changes in living costs from one period of time to another but do not measure differences in living costs between one place and another place.
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IN ANALYZING cost of living indexes it would seem most feasible to limit the analysis to a brief discussion of time-to-time indexes, i.e., indexes which measure changes in living costs from one period of time to another but do not measure differences in living costs between one place and another place.
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Cost-of-living indexes and demographic change
Applied Economics, 1990The Consumer Price Index (CPI) although not without problems is the most often used mechanism for adjusting contracts for cost-of-living changes in the US. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics lists several problems associated with using the CPI as a cost-of-living index where the proportion of 2-worker families is increasing population is shifting and ...
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Information, Multiprice Search, and Cost-of-Living Index Theory
Journal of Political Economy, 1987This paper derives the cost-of-living index of an individual who faces imperfect and costly information about prices. Traditional cost-of-living in dexes assume that the consumer passively accepts prices as given. The authors derive a multiprice search model in which the consumer choos es the search strategy that minimizes the expected cost of buying a
Anglin, Paul M, Baye, Michael R
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The social cost of living index
Journal of Public Economics, 1981Abstract Household cost of living indexes reflect household preferences; analogous indexes for groups of households require a corresponding concept of group preferences. In this paper I investigate the ‘social cost of living index’, a group index based on the Bergson-Samuelson social welfare function.
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An Interstate Cost-of-Living Index
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1991This research describes a simple way to generate an interstate cost-of-living index from market basket data collected at the standard metropolitan statistical area (SMSA) level. Models were developed for each of four regions to explain differences in the cost of living among more than 180 SMSAs.
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