The cost of living with the RPI : substitution bias in the UK retail prices index

  • Laura Blow
  • Ian Crawford

Published on 1 January 2001

This paper uses revealed preference restrictions and nonparametric statistical methods to bound the true cost-of-living index which corresponds most closely to the UK Retail Prices Index (RPI)

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This paper uses revealed preference restrictions and nonparametric statistical methods to bound the true cost-of-living index which corresponds most closely to the UK Retail Prices Index (RPI)

Authors

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Laura Blow

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Ian Crawford

Journal article details

Publisher
Wiley
Issue
January 2001

Suggested citation

Blow, L and Crawford, I. (2001). 'The cost of living with the RPI : substitution bias in the UK retail prices index' (2001)

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