Inflation, Part 2: How Do We Construct and Choose an Index?

Carlos Garriga () and Devin Werner

Economic Synopses, 2022, issue 16, 3 pages

Abstract: Both the CPI and the PCE price indexes measure the prices of consumer goods and services— but they differ in important ways.

Keywords: inflation; consumer price index (CPI); personal consumption expenditures (PCE) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.20955/es.2022.16

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