The apples and oranges theorem for price indices

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Publication date 2009
Journal Economics Letters
Volume | Issue number 103 | 1
Pages (from-to) 12-14
Organisations
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
Abstract The question is whether or not there is a generally meaningful way to compute price indices. I explore the duality between price and quantity indices, and present an impossibility result that is analogous to the one for quantity indices.
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