Measuring the Transition: A User's Viewon National Accounts in Russia
January 1, 1994
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Summary
As Russia’s transition unfolds, the traditional national accounts concepts and reporting mechanisms become increasingly inadequate. As a result, the margin of error associated with basic price and quantity estimates widens substantially. A selection of key measurement and interpretation issues is discussed here, in operational rather than in methodological terms.
Subject: Consumer price indexes, Deflation, Inflation, National accounts, Price indexes, Prices, Producer price indexes
Keywords: Central and Eastern Europe, chained PPI, Consumer price indexes, Deflation, deflator, dollar GDP estimate, e. stockbuilding, Eastern Europe, enterprise, enterprise profits, Inflation, investment deflator, PPI inflation rates, PPI sample, Price indexes, price liberalization, rate of change, retail price index, stockbuilding, WP
Pages:
26
Volume:
1994
DOI:
Issue:
006
Series:
Working Paper No. 1994/006
Stock No:
WPIEA0061994
ISBN:
9781451842258
ISSN:
1018-5941
