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Presentation 1
Presentation 1
y Calculating the CPI for a single item y Cpi 1/cpi 2 = price 1 /price 2 y Where 1 is usually the comparison year and CPI1 is
usually an index of 100. Calculating the CPI for multiple items Cpi=sum of cpi of all the years * weight y Example: The prices of 95,000 items from 22,000 stores, and 35,000 rental units are added together and averaged. They are weighted this way: Housing: 41.4%, Food and Beverage: 17.4%, Transport: 17.0%, Medical Care: 6.9%, Other: 6.9%, Apparel: 6.0%, Entertainment: 4.4%. Taxes (43%) are not included in CPI computation.
The trend
BULGARIAN CPI
y The causes : y Collapse of the economic system y Loss of soviet market y Unstable and decentralized banking system y Trade deficit , improper real estate investment
Why ???
Lag variables
Independent variables: interest and debt
Basic findings :
y The high correlation among the bulgarian consumer