Producer Price Index

Definition

Producer Price Index. An economic indicator representing a measure of the rate of change over time in the prices of goods and services bought and sold by producers

Statistical agencies implement the Laspeyres index by putting it into price-relative (price change from the base period) and revenue-share (from the base period) format. In this form, the Laspeyres index can be written as the sum of base-period revenue shares of the items in the index times their corresponding price relatives. Statistical agency practice has introduced some approximations to the theoretical Laspeyres target due to a number of practical problems with producing the Laspeyres index exactly. For these and other pragmatic reasons, some agencies use alternatives depending on circumstances. See the IMF publication cited for a full explanation of the most commonly used approaches and trade-offs made for determining PPI.

See Also

• https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/ppi/2010/manual/ppi.pdf

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