Relative Price Levels in Cities and Regions: A Comparative Aspect

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	Regionalistica 2020 Volume 7 number 6 pages 94-107

Title of the article	Relative Price Levels in Cities and Regions: A Comparative Aspect
Pages	94-107
Author	Domnich Yegor Leonidovich Candidate of science (economics), senior research fellow Economic Research Institute FEB RAS 153, Tikhookeanskaya Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680042 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract	The study discusses the analytical value of the cost-of-living index as a measure of the relative price level in the Russian economic space. It is established that the estimates of the cost-of-living index obtained by Rosstat are heterogeneous across the country in terms of territorial coverage and representativeness of data by region. The worst representation of the indicator is typical for the most backward regions of late development and the most developed regions with an evenly distributed urban population. The thesis about the exclusivity of the cost-of-living index as a measure of the relative price level in comparison with other spatial indices is disputed.
Code	338.001.36+338.5
DOI	10.14530/reg.2020.6.94
Keywords	cost-of-living index ♦ official statistics ♦ regions of Russia ♦ Russian Far East
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For citation	Domnich Y.L. Relative Price Levels in Cities and Regions: A Comparative Aspect. Regionalistica [Regionalistics]. 2020. Vol. 7. No. 6. Pp. 94–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.14530/reg.2020.6.94 (In Russian)
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