Study of consumer psychology and consumer price index usually used questionnaire method; this method is very good at solving the macro problem, however, to specific numerical value index, used questionnaire method is difficult to determine, and there is always a certain doubt about the correctness of the results what used questionnaire method. Because of EEG can be true reflection of the true p...

t he objective of this study is using the markov switching vector autoregressive method and regime dependent impulse response functions to measure the pass-through of world food prices to consumer price index in iran from 1990 to 2013. with respect to information criteria and the log-likelihood ratio statistic, msia(2)-var(1) model has a better fit to data than other models. the magnitude of th...

In the present paper, it is studied the price relations and how price is transmitted between the producer level and the consumer level for lamb meat. Data used in the research include consumer price index and producer price index for lamb meat covering monthly periods of 91 months since March 2001 through September 2008. Johansen's and Juselius's cointegration method and Granger causality test ...

Although scanner price quotes and expenditures have great promise in improving the Consumer Price Index (CPI), their use has introduced new problems. One major problem confronting the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the treatment of an item that experiences no purchases during a particular time period. Either a price can be explicitly imputed for this item or it can be implicitly imputed by...

The study of determining the factors affecting inflation or consumer price index has been conducted by many macroeconomic economists nationally as well as internationally. In this paper, we assess the external determinants of inflation dynamics in Iran. For this purpose, we use an OLS single equation model and a vector error correction model (VECM). Results of the analysis reveal that money sup...

A hedonic technique for calculating the consumer price index for second-hand cars was introduced in May 2003. The hedonic technique adjusts for quality by using regression analysis to measure the impact of product features on sale price. In this manner price changes that are due to quality shifts in specific features can be separated mathematically from “pure” price changes and purged. The foll...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to analyse the total socio-economic impact of RA in Sweden during the period 1990-2010 and to analyse possible changes in costs during this period. The period was deliberately chosen to cover 10 years before and 10 years after the introduction of biologic drugs. METHODS A prevalence-based cost-of-illness study was conducted based on data from natio...