Macroeconomics 15th Edition by James Gwartney, Richard Stroup, Russell Sobel, David Macpherson

Exercise 14

The receipts and year of release of the five movies with the largest nominal box office revenues, along with the CPI data of each year are presented below. Assuming that the receipts for each of the movies were derived during their year of release, convert the receipts for each to real dollars for the year 2012 (2012 CPI 229.6). Which movie had the largest real box office receipts