An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between WPI and PMI-Manufacturing Price Indices in India

Jeevan Khundrakpam and Asish Thomas George

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Abstract: Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) has been increasingly used by various central banks for assessing the direction and strength of economic activity. One of the sub-indices or component level information provided by PMI is that of industrial input and output prices trends as surveyed by firms’ purchasing managers. In this context, the paper tries to examine whether these PMI manufacturer’s price diffusion indices serve as a useful indicator for understanding changes in WPI in India. The analysis was carried out using both OLS estimates and ARDL approach to cointegration for the period April 2005 to October 2012. It is found that both the PMI price indices are good indicators and have significant predictive power of the changes in WPI–All commodities and WPI–Non-food manufactured products.

Keywords: PMI; WPI; ARDL; price; forecasting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 E31 E37 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-10
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Published in RBI WORKING PAPER SERIES W P S (DEPR): 06.2013(2013): pp. 1-17

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