Ch11 Measuring the cost of living - tài liệu tham khảo | Đài học Hoa Sen
Ch11 Measuring the cost of living - tài liệu tham khảo | Đài học Hoa Se và thông tin bổ ích giúp sinh viên tham khảo, ôn luyện và phục vụ nhu cầu học tập của mình cụ thể là có định hướng, ôn tập, nắm vững kiến thức môn học và làm bài tốt trong những bài kiểm tra, bài tiểu luận, bài tập kết thúc học phần, từ đó học tập tốt và có kết quả cao cũng như có thể vận dụng tốt những kiến thức
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N. GREGORY MANKIW NINTH EDITION PRINCIPLES OF MACRO ECONOMICS CHAPTER Measuring the Cost of Living
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license distributed with a certain product or service or otherwise on a password-protected website or school-approved learning management system for classroom use. 1 IN THIS CHAPTER
• What is the Consumer Price Index (CPI)?
How is it calculated? What’s it used for?
• What are the problems with the CPI? How serious are they?
• How does the CPI differ from the GDP deflator?
• How can we use the CPI to compare dollar
amounts from different years? Why would we want to do this, anyway?
• How can we correct interest rates for inflation?
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license distributed with a certain product or service or otherwise on a password-protected website or school-approved learning management system for classroom use. The Consumer Price Index • Consumer price index (CPI)
– Measure of the overall cost of goods and
services bought by a typical consumer
– Monitor changes in the cost of living over time • Core CPI
– A measure of the overall cost of consumer
goods and services excluding food and energy • Producer price index (PPI)
– A measure of the cost of a basket of goods and services bought by firms
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How the CPI Is Calculated – 1 1. Fix the basket
– The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) surveys
consumers to determine what’s in the typical
consumer’s “shopping basket.” 2. Find the prices
– The BLS collects data on the prices of all the goods in the basket. 3. Compute the basket’s cost
– Use the prices to compute the total cost of the basket.
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How the CPI Is Calculated – 2
4. Chose a base year and compute the CPI
• Designate a year as base year (benchmark)
CPI = [Basket’s cost in current year / Basket’s cost in base year] × 100 5. Compute the inflation rate
• Percentage change in the CPI from the preceding period CPI this year−CPI last year Inflation rate CPI last year
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EXAMPLE 1: Market basket: 10 pizzas, 5 shirts Price of Price of year Cost of basket pizza shirts 2017 $12 $18 2018 $14 $20 2019 $16 $22
Compute CPI in each year (2017 base year) 2017: 2018: 2019:
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The typical basket of goods and services
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Active Learning 1: Calculate CPI & inflation rate CPI basket: Price of Price of year 10 lbs of beef, beef chicken 2017 $3 $3 20 lbs of chicken 2018 $4 $4 Base year: 2017 2019 $8 $5 A. Calculate CPI for all years
B. What was the inflation rate from 2018- 2019?
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Active Learning 2: A new basket, CPI & inflation rate New CPI basket for 2019: Price of Price of year 5 lbs of beef, beef chicken 2017 $3 $3 25 lbs o f chicken 2018 $4 $4 Base year: 2017 2019 $8 $5
A. Calculate cost of the new basket for 2019 and the CPI for 2019.
B. What’s the new inflation rate from 2018- 2019?
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license distributed with a certain product or service or otherwise on a password-protected website or school-approved learning management system for classroom use. Problems with the CPI – 1 • Substitution Bias
– Over time, some prices rise faster than others
– Consumers substitute toward goods that
become relatively cheaper, mitigating the effects of price increases.
– The CPI misses this substitution because it uses a fixed basket of goods.
– Thus, the CPI overstates increases in the cost of living.
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