IPod指數

出自 MBA智库百科(https://wiki.mbalib.com/)

iPod指數（iPod index）

　　iPod指數：通過iPod產品的市場售價來體現各國貨幣幣值與購買力。

　　於2006年由澳洲聯邦銀行推出，其理論基礎是購買力平價，即匯率若未遭到扭曲，同一產品的售價在全球各地應該大致相同。被認為是巨無霸指數（Big Mac index）的21世紀版本，與巨無霸指數相比，其標榜更準確反映匯率水平，並不受各地稅率、勞工成本等因素影響。

　　22 August 2009: One vivid way to illustrate the relative purchasing power of wages is to replace the abstract basket of goods and services with a specific, highly uniform product that is available everywhere with the same quality, and then calculate how long an employee would have to work to be able to afford it in each city. For the first time, a non-food product was used in the study to compare working hours. The iPod nano with 8 GB of storage is an ideal example of a globally uniform product. An average wage-earner in Zurich and New York can buy a nano from an Apple store after nine hours of work. At the other end of the spectrum, workers in Mumbai, need to work 20 nine-hour days – roughly the equivalent of one month's salary – to purchase an iPod nano.

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