Author: Carlos Guerrero de Lizardi

I can imagine that inflation rates are the daily bread for financial advisers, and I am positively sure that the routinely compilation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), by any statistical agency, constitutes a tour the force. But above all, I am convinced that it is time we all realize that the CPI

For a National Statistical Office the main purpose of measuring the value of the capital stock is to provide a basis for the calculation of consumption of fixed capital. The most common way to estimate it is an indirect one, the so called "perpetual inventory method". On the other hand, the Economic Censuses provides valuable