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Price index concepts and measurement / edited by W. Erwin Diewert, John Greenlees, and Charles Hulten.

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  1. Price index concepts and measurement / edited by W. Erwin Diewert, John Greenlees, and Charles Hulten.
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  1. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

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Additional authors
  1. Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.
  2. Diewert, W. E. (W. Erwin)
  3. Greenlees, John Shearer.
  4. Hulten, Charles R.
Description
  1. ix, 519 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Studies in income and wealth ; v. 70
Uniform title
  1. Studies in income and wealth ; v. 70.
Subject
  1. Inflation (Finance) > Congresses
  2. Price indexes > Congresses
  3. Indexation (Economics) > Congresses
Contents
  1. Introduction. What are the Issues? / W. Erwin Diewert, John Greenlees and Charles Hulten -- A Review of Reviews: Ninety Years of Professional Thinking About the Consumer Price Index / Marshall Reinsdorf and Jack E. Triplett -- Apparel Prices 1914-1993 and the Hultenl Bruegel Paradox / Robert J. Gordon -- Reassessing the U.S. Quality Adjustment to Computer Prices: The Role of Durability and Changing Software / Robert C. Feenstra and Christopher R. Knittel -- Hedonic Imputation versus Time Dummy Hedonic Indexes / W. Erwin Diewert, Saeed Heravi and Mick Silver -- Comment / Jan de Haan -- Reply / W. Erwin Diewert, Saeed Hera vi and Mick Silver -- CPI Bias from Supercenters: Does the BLS Know That Wal-Mart Exists? / Jerry Hausman and Ephraim Leibtag -- Comment / Marshall Reinsdorf -- Comment / Mick Silver -- Incorporating Financial Services in a Consumer Price Index / Dennis Fixler -- Comment: Susanto Basu -- A General Equilibrium Asset-Pricing Approach to the Measurement of Nominal and Real Bank Output / J. Christina Wang, Susanto Basu and John G. Fernald -- Comment / Paul Schreyer -- Can A Disease-Based Price Index Improve the Estimation of the Medical Consumer Price Index? / Xue Song, William D. Marder, Robert Houchens, Jonathan E. Conklin and Ralph Bradley -- Comment / Ernst R. Berndt -- Price and Real Output Measures for the Education Function of Government: Exploratory Estimates for Primary and Secondary Education / Barbara M. Fraumeni, Marshall Reinsdorf, Brooks B. Robinson and Matthew P. Williams -- Measuring the Output and Prices of the Lottery Sector: An Application of Implicit Expected Utility Theory / Kam Yu -- Comment / Alan G. White -- Consumption of Own Production and Cost-of-Living Indexes / T. Peter Hill -- Durables and Owner-Occupied Housing in a Consumer Price Index / W. Erwin Diewert -- Comment / Alan Heston.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. "This volume contains revised versions of most of the papers and discussions presented at the Conference on Research and Income and Wealth entitled 'Price index concepts and measurement,' held in Vancouver, British Columbia on June 28-29, 2004"--P. ix.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.