Budgetary and Distributional Effects of Adopting the Chained CPI.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Budget--United States.

Budget.

United States.

Consumer price indexes.

Consumers.

Inflation (Finance).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (12 p), digital, PDF file)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Describes issues with measuring inflation, and summarizes pros and cons of traditional Consumer Price Index (CPI) and chained CPI, the latter of which is intended to produce a measure of change in consumer prices that is free of substitution bias. Examines budgetary and distributional effects of adopting chained CPI.

Notes:

Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Mar. 2014). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.

CRS Report.

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Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Budgetary and Distributional Effects of Adopting the Chained CPI

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