Comparing Two Measures of Core Inflation: PCE Excluding Food & Energy vs. the Trimmed Mean PCE Index

Matteo Luciani and Riccardo Trezzi

No 2019-08-02-1, FEDS Notes from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)

Abstract: The goal of this note is to provide an assessment of two of the most commonly used indicators of core inflation: the PCE price index excluding food and energy (an exclusion index), and the Dallas Fed trimmed mean PCE price index (a central-tendency statistical measure).

Date: 2019-08-02
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DOI: 10.17016/2380-7172.2390

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