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• The broadest measure of inflation, the implicit price deflator for the gross domestic product, fell from 2.2 percent in April to 2.1 percent this month.
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The GDP deflator - the overall inflation measure covering all price changes in the economy and not just at the consumer level - rose 0.4 percent in the third quarter to 128.
»The price deflator measures the magnitude of price increases and detects whether higher costs drive consumers away from a product.
- implicit price deflator
- overall price deflator
индекс цен, дефлятор
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• A statistical factor designed to remove the effect of inflation
• Inflation adjusted variables are in constant dollars