Suppose an Individual Consumes Just Pizza and Soda

question 37

Essay

Suppose an individual consumes just pizza and soda.Using a graph,explain how the substitution bias causes the Lespeyres price index to overstate the true change in the cost of living resulting from an increase in the price of pizza.

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