Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Vladimir Bessonov
Author-Email: bessonov@hse.ru
Author-Workplace-Name: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Title: What Opportunities Do New Technologies Bring About for Price Statistics?
Abstract: The paper discusses new opportunities for Russian price statistics that present-day information and communication technologies bring about. The paper is a response to the study Isakov et al. (2021) dedicated to the effort of developing a toolset to build a price quotation database through automated internet data collection and construction of consumer price indexes based on it. Discussed are the potential implications of this activity for price statistics.
Classification-JEL: C43, C80
Keywords: database, big data, consumer price index, internet, information and communication technologies, corona crisis
Journal: Russian Journal of Money and Finance
Pages: 120-126
Volume: 80
Issue: 1
Year: 2021
Month: March
DOI: 10.31477/rjmf.202101.120
File-URL: https://rjmf.econs.online/upload/iblock/c22/New_Technologies_Price_Statistics.pdf
Handle: RePEc:bkr:journl:v:80:y:2021:i:1:p:120-126