Before the Adoption of a Chain-Weighted Price Index in the United

question 20

Multiple Choice

Before the adoption of a chain-weighted price index in the United States, the payments based on changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) tended to be:

• A) too large, because the system used a Paasche index.
• B) too large, because the system used a Laspeyres index.
• C) too small, because the system used a Paasche index.
• D) too small, because the system used a Laspeyres index.

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