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Price Indexes

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Price indexes
See: Consumer price index and producer price index
Index
A statistical measure of the value of a certain portfolio of securities. The portfolio may be for a certain class of security, a certain industry, or may include the most important securities in a given market, among other options. The value of an index increases when the aggregate value of the underlying securities increases, and decreases when the aggregate value decreases. An index may track stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and any other security or investment vehicle, including other indices. An index's value may be weighted; for example, securities with higher prices or greater market capitalization may affect the index's value more than others. One of the most prominent examples of an index is the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which is weighted for price and tracks 30 stocks important in American markets.
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In particular, since Diewert (1976, 1978) developed the "superlative index number theory," it has become popular for economists to use superlative price indexes to measure and analyze consumers' cost of living standards (5) (Manser & McDonald, 1989; Aizcorbe & Jackman, 1993; Sharpiro & Wilcox, 1996; Cage & Jackman, 1997; Blow & Crawford, 2001).
Study on Taiwan consumers' cost of living: an application of the ... by Lieu, Pang-Tien; Chen, Jui-Hui; Chang, Chih-jung / International Journal of Business
Locality of Origin (LOO) import price indexes were first published by IPP in 1992 for the following groupings, geographic regions, and countries: industrialized and other countries, Canada, European Union, Japan, and the Asian Newly Industrialized Countries (NICS); in 1997 the Latin America locality was added to publication.
IPP introduces additional Locality of Origin import price indexes by McCulley, Helen; Schwartz, Melissa / Monthly Labor Review
17 Kyodo The government expects domestic price indexes to remain under upward pressure from higher rice prices until mid-2004 following the unseasonably cool summer that has prompted the prospect of poor harvests, the Cabinet Office said Monday.
Rice to exert upward pressure on prices until mid-2004 by Japan Weekly Monitor
 
 
 
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