Monthly Labor Review Articles on Producer Price Indexes

The Monthly Labor Review (MLR) contains Producer Price Indexes (PPIs) for selected series as well as occasional technical and analytical articles on the PPI. The MLR also provides summary data and analytical articles for other BLS statistical programs and caters to a very broad audience. Below are Producer Price Index articles that have been published in the Monthly Labor Review.

  • Producer price highlights, 2007 (July 2008) (PDF 224K)
  • Price measures of new vehicles: a comparison (July 2008) (PDF 274K)
  • Producer price highlights, 2006 (July/August 2007) (PDF 431K)
  • Price transmission: from crude petroleum to plastics products (December 2006) (PDF 130K)
  • Price and expenditure measures of petroleum products: a comparison (December 2006) (PDF 168K)
  • Producer price highlights, 2005 (July 2006) (PDF 87K)
  • Price transmission within the PPI for intermediate goods (May 2005) (PDF 84K)
  • Factors affecting beef and cattle producer prices movements (May 2005) (PDF 63K)
  • Consumer gasoline prices: an empirical investigation (July 2003) (PDF 84K)
  • An empirical analysis of price transmission by stage of processing (November 2002) (PDF 100K)
  • Producer price highlights, 2001 (July 2002) (PDF 68K)
  • Producer price highlights, 2000 (July 2001) (PDF 99K)
  • Producer price highlights, 1999 (August 2000) (PDF 61K)
  • Producer price highlights, 1998 (July 1999) (PDF 65K)
  • Comparing PPI energy indexes to alternative data sources (December 1998) (PDF 170K)
  • The 1996 grain price shock: how did it affect food inflation? (August 1998) (PDF 193K)
  • Producer price highlights, 1997 (July 1998) (PDF 77K)
  • Improving the PPI samples for prescription pharmaceuticals (October 1997) (PDF 840K)
  • Producer price highlights, 1996 (July 1997) (PDF 70K)
  • Producer price highlights, 1995 (July 1996) (PDF 727K)
  • Effect of 1992 weights on Producer Price Indexes (July 1996) (PDF 738K)
  • Hospital price inflation: what does the new PPI tell us? (July 1996) (PDF 476K)
  • Producer price highlights, 1994 (July 1995) (PDF 745K)
  • Pricing practices for tobacco products, 1980-94 (December 1994) (PDF 775K)
  • Producer price rises slowed in improving economy in 1993 (May 1994) (PDF 263K)
  • Effect of updated weights on Producer Price Indexes (March 1993) (PDF 801K)
  • Recession and energy prices ease producer prices in 1991 (May 1992) (PDF 758K)
  • New price index for the computer industry (October 1990) (PDF 1,150K)

 

Last Modified Date: August 22, 2008