摘要：The low consumer price inflation in Norway may largely be explained by the sharp fall in prices for import-ed goods, which is a result of a price fall in other countries and an appreciation of the krone. The increase inprices for different product groups that are among the imported consumer goods has varied considerably,reflecting a shift in import patterns and strong productivity growth for the production of some goods. To cap-ture these factors, we have calculated an alternative indicator for external price impulses to consumer goods,composed of foreign prices for seven product groups. A disaggregated approach of this kind will probablyprovide a better measure of price impulses than traditional indicators that are based on aggregated indicesfor export prices or producer prices among trading partners
