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Relatioinships between economic and statistical price indices

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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.

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  1. Institut für Wirtschaftstheorie und Operations Research, Universität Karlsruhe, Kaiserstr. 12, D-7500, Karlsruhe

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Fuchs-Seliger, S. Relatioinships between economic and statistical price indices. Statistische Hefte 27, 101–115 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02932561

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