Statistische Hefte

, Volume 27, Issue 1, pp 101–115 | Cite as

Relatioinships between economic and statistical price indices

  • Susanne Fuchs-Seliger
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Abstract

In the following, the economic counterparts of Eichhorn's and Voeller's tests for statistical price indices will be studied. We will see that replacing the statistical Commensurability Axiom in the economic price index theory by a property which is only concerned with price changes leads to similar relationships between this one and several other tests as in the statistical price index theory.

Keywords

Utility Function Price Index Demand Function Utility Level Comparison Time 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Susanne Fuchs-Seliger
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  1. 1.Institut für Wirtschaftstheorie und Operations ResearchUniversität KarlsruheKarlsruhe

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