Mismeasurement of the CPI

Kenn Ariga & Kenji Matsui
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Copyright 2003
ISBN 0226060217
Structural Impediments to Growth in Japan
Book: Structural Impediments to Growth in Japan
Book editors: Magnus Blomström, Jennifer Corbett, Fumio Hayashi & Anil Kashyap
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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  • Kenn Ariga and Kenji Matsui, Structural Impediments to Growth in Japan (University of Chicago Press, 2003), chap. 4, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/structural-impediments-growth-japan/mismeasurement-cpi.

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Mismeasurement of the CPI
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In this paper, we investigate several key problems in Japanese economic statistics. We use CPI mismeasurements and...

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