Index spotřebitelských cen a jeho vhodnost pro měření inflace

The target of this bachelor's thesis is comparison of current measurement of inflation, a measurement by consumer price index, with alternative attitudes of measuring of inflation including an identification of their vallue added. Nowadays the maintenance of a stable inflation rate is one of the dominant targets of all central banks in developed countries. The central banks use various instruments of monetary policy to ensure this target. One of the regime of monetary policy that central banks use the most is inflation targeting, more precisely targeting of consumer price index. Unfortunately, this price index carries an amount of disadvantages. At first, I mention predominant discussion about technical imperfections that are caused by the method of it's calculation. Then I focus on monetary - political imperfections of the consumer price index that are caused by the fact that this index ilustrates development of only relatively stable consumer prices, so it's reactions on changes of monetary policy are very weak. After that I carry out an comparative analysis of representative alternative attitudes of measurement of inflation, including a comparison of developement of inflation rate according to these attitudes in USA in last few years.