The gain, which excluded prices of fresh food, matched the median forecast of 30 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.
Once the prime neighbourhoods were excluded, prices in the capital were up by 2% over the quarter and by 8.2% year-on-year.
For the purpose of this paper we excluded price-volume agreements and market caps, as well as schemes that were direct-to-customer awareness/marketing campaigns rather than MAA with health authorities (i.e. the 140-900 initiative" for valsartan from Novartis [ 4] and Bayer' scheme on vardenafil [ 5] in Denmark).
By this approach and by excluding price effects, a fair design comparison becomes possible.
The Bank of Japan's policy board forecast that the core consumer price index, which excludes prices of fresh food, would rise 0.1percentt for the fiscal year ending in March 2006.
To the surprise of many forecasters, the core rate of inflation, excluding prices for food and energy, slowed to an annual rate of just 1.1percentt last year.
The Fed's preferred measure of inflation, which excludes prices of food and energy, has climbed by less than 1.5percentt over the last year, well within Mr. Bernanke's unofficial comfort range of 1 to 2percentt.
The Fed's preferred measure of inflation, which excludes prices of food and energy, has climbed by less than 1.5percentt over the past year -- well below Mr. Bernanke's unofficial comfort range of 1percenttoto 2percentt.
The variable "General overhead costs per day" thus acts as a proxy for the price level a hospital faces to purchase certain activities excluding prices for medical personnel.
To deal with volatile markets, framework agreements may exclude prices from the terms and conditions agreed upon in the first stage of competition.
It explicitly excludes cost and price competition to avoid conflicts of interest".
