The Practice of Increasing a Nominal Quantity Each Period by an Amount

question 54

Multiple Choice

The practice of increasing a nominal quantity each period by an amount equal to the percentage increase in a specified price index is called:

• A)a substitution bias.
• B)the Fisher effect.
• C)deflating.
• D)indexing.

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Definitions:

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