IMF Working Papers

Measuring the Transition: A User's Viewon National Accounts in Russia

By Vincent Koen

January 1, 1994

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Vincent Koen. Measuring the Transition: A User's Viewon National Accounts in Russia, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1994) accessed December 8, 2024
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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

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    26

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1994/006

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0061994

  • ISBN:

    9781451842258

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941