| Meeting Day Two: May 28th |
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| 9:00 to 10:30 | Session Four A: New developments in calculation methods - elementary aggregates |
| | Chair: Robert McClelland |
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| | - Lorraine Ivancic, Kevin J.Fox (University of New South Wales) and W. Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia): Scanner Data, Time Aggregation and the Construction of Price Indexes
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| | - Jan de Haan, Heymerik van der Grient (Statistics Netherlands): Eliminating Chain Drift in Price Indexes Based on Scanner Data
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| | - Reto Müller (FSO): Price collection with scanner data for the Swiss CPI/HICP
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| 10:30 to 10:45 | Break |
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| 10:45 to 12:30 | Session Four A (continued): New developments in calculation methods - elementary aggregates |
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| | - Jens Mehrhoff (Deutsche Bundesbank): Aggregate Indices and Their Corresponding Elementary Indices
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| | - Mick Silver (IMF): An Index Number Formula Problem: the Aggregation of Broadly Comparable Items
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| | - Peter von der Lippe (University of Duisburg-Essen): Unit Value Bias Reconsidered
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| | Room documents (according to timeframe) |
| | - Hans Wolfgang Brachinger, Michael Beer (University of Fribourg): The Econometric Foundations of Hedonic Elementary Price Indices
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| 12:30 to 14:00 | Lunch |
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| 14:00 to 15:30 | Session Four B: New developments in calculation methods - retrospective approximations |
| | Chair: Yoel Finkel |
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| | - Jan de Haan (Statistics Netherlands), Bert M. Balk (Erasmus University and Statistics Netherlands), Carsten Boldsen Hansen (UNECE): Retrospective Approximations of Superlative Price Indexes for Years where Expenditure Data is Unavailable
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| | - W. Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia), Marco Huwiler, Ulrich Kohli (Swiss National Bank): Retrospective Price Indices and Substitution Bias
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| | Room documents (according to timeframe) |
| | - Katrina Lindsay, Ricky Ho and Chris Pike (Statistics New Zealand): New Zealand consumers price index: retrospective superlative index time series
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| 15:30 to 15:45 | Break |
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| 15:45 to 17:30 | Session Five: Core inflation: from calculation to interpretation |
| | Chair: Mick Silver |
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| | - Luigi Biggeri (ISTAT), Tiziana Laureti (University of Naples), Federico Polidoro (ISTAT): Measuring and Interpreting core inflation: evidence from Italy
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| | - Daniel Griffiths (Statistics New Zealand): Core inflation measures produced in New Zealand
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| | - Marco Huwiler: Measures of core inflation in Switzerland: An evaluation of alternative calculation methods for monetary policy
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| | Room documents (according to timeframe) |
| | - Gregor W. Smith (Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario): The Missing Links: Better Measures of Inflation and Inflation Expectations in Canada
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| | - Walter Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia): Discussion of the Smith paper
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