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September 2006

Interarea price levels: an experimental methodology

Bettina Aten

Differences in relative price levels for areas of the United States can be estimated with a modified Country-Product-Dummy (CPD) method often used in international comparisons of the purchasing power of currencies; CPI observations and CE weights are used to estimate experimental price level differentials for 2003 and 2004.

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