作者
Menggen Chen, Yan Wang, DS Prasada Rao
发表日期
2020/4
期刊
The World Economy
卷号
43
期号
4
页码范围
1103-1146
简介
The measurement of prices has been an important field in economics, and a spatial price index is very useful in comparing the standards of living and well‐being across regions in a country. This paper intends to measure the regional price parities (RPPs) across different provincial areas in China with an urban sample of 140 goods and services in 2015 according to the framework of the International Comparison Program (ICP) methodology. The results show that the RPPs that were estimated with commonly used approaches, such as the Gini–Éltetö–Köves–Szulc (GEKS), Geary–Khamis (GK) and weighted country product dummy (WCPD), are only slightly different. The RPPs of three regions including Guangdong, Shanghai and Zhejiang are greater than 1 (with Beijing = 1), while the other 27 regions are all lower than 1, which represents price levels that are less than Beijing. In the extrapolation of the RPPs from …
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