Price Index

Fisher's Ideal Price Index
An economic indicator calculated as the geometric mean of the Laspeyres and Paasche price indices for measuring price changes.
Real GDP
An entry defining and outlining the concept of real GDP in economic terms
Bundle of Goods
A comprehensive look at the term 'bundle of goods,' its implications in economics, and how it is applied in constructing price indices.
Chain Price Index
An in-depth exploration of the Chain Price Index and its relevance in economic analysis.
Commodity Price Index
A comprehensive overview of the Commodity Price Index and its application in economic analysis
Current-Weighted Index
An explanation of the current-weighted index, better known as the Paasche index, including its definition, significance, and comparative analysis with other economic indices.
Deflator
An index used to adjust nominal data to real data by removing or accounting for inflation effects, typically in the context of GDP calculations.
Drobisch Price Index
An economic term referring to a specific type of price index formed by averaging the Laspeyres and Paasche indices.
Elementary Price Index
An unweighted price index that does not account for the relative importance of different goods in a consumer's basket of purchases.
Expenditure-Based Deflator
An economics term describing a price index reflecting expenditure shares of different goods and services, including import prices and excluding export prices.
GDP Deflator
An in-depth look at the GDP deflator, a price index used to assess real changes in gross domestic product.
Inflation
Inflation is a persistent increase in nominal prices, measured by price indices such as the consumer price index or GDP deflator.
Inflation Rate
The rate of increase of a specified price index, measured typically on an annual basis.
Laspeyres Index
An economic measure used to calculate the price change in a specific basket of goods over time using a fixed base period.
Paasche Index
A type of current-weighted index used to measure price or quantity changes over time.
Paasche Price Index
An economic measure weighted by current period quantities used to compare the cost of a basket of goods/services over different time periods.
Price Index
An index number representing the average of prices of goods in a given category.
Purchasing Power
The amount of real goods and services each unit of money will buy.
Real Balances
An examination of the term 'real balances' in economics, including its definition, historical context, and analytical frameworks.
Real National Income
An economic term describing the national income adjusted for price changes using a suitable price index
Conditional Cost of Living Index
An economics term referring to a measure of the change in the cost of maintaining a given standard of living, assuming all factors remain constant except for the prices of goods in the index