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

question 16

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.
• E) a quality adjustment.

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