Quality change and other influences on measures of export prices of manufactured goods (English)

Measures of long-term trends in world export prices for manufactured goods, and in the terms of trade between manufactured goods and primary products, are sensitive to many choices in methods for weighting indexes, base periods, and (most important) changes in quality. For example: 1) wieghting products by their importance in exports to developing countries, rather than by their importance in exports to all countries, reduces the estimated rate of...

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Lipsey, Robert E.;
Document Date
1994/08/31
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS1348
Volume No
1
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1
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2010/07/01
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Quality change and other influences on measures of export prices of manufactured goods
Keywords
price index

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Lipsey, Robert E..

Quality change and other influences on measures of export prices of manufactured goods (English). Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 1348 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/942671468739286420

Quality change and other influences on measures of export prices of manufactured goods (English)

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