Measuring core inflation in India: An asymmetric trimmed mean approach

The paper seeks to obtain an optimal asymmetric trimmed mean-based core inflation measure in the class of trimmed mean measures when the distribution of price changes is leptokurtic and skewed to the right for any given period. Several estimators based on asymmetric trimmed mean approach are constru...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Naresh Kumar Sharma, Motilal Bicchal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2015-12-01
Series:Cogent Economics & Finance
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2015.1014252