Abstract The spread of COVID‐19 has led to sweeping changes in the way households work, spend their time and shop resulting in different shopping patterns and rapid price changes in some goods. How will changes such as these be reflected in headline inflation measures such as the Consumer Prices Index (CPI)? This paper discusses problems in interpreting the CPI as a measure of how the cost of living is changing during the lockdown. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved

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COVID-19 会感染消费者价格指数吗？1

摘要 COVID-19 的传播导致家庭工作、消磨时间和购物的方式发生了翻天覆地的变化，从而导致了不同的购物模式和某些商品的快速价格变化。这些变化将如何反映在消费者价格指数 (CPI) 等总体通胀指标中？本文讨论了将 CPI 解释为衡量封锁期间生活成本如何变化的问题。本文受版权保护。版权所有