Price index concepts and measurement
By: edited by W. Erwin Diewert, John Greenlees, and Charles Hulten.
Contributors: Diewert, W. E.; Greenlees, John Shearer.; Hulten, Charles R.; Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.
Series: Studies in income and wealth -- v. 70; Studies in income and wealth -- v. 70.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 519
ISBN-13: 9780226148557
Subjects: Indexation (Economics) -- Congresses; Inflation (Finance) -- Congresses; Price indexes -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: what are the issues? / W. Erwin Diewert, John Greenlees, and Charles Hulten; title: A review of reviews: ninety years of professional thinking about the consumer price index / Marshall Reinsdorf and Jack E. Triplett; title: Apparel prices 1914-93 and the Hulten/Bruegel paradox / Robert J. Gordon; title: Re-assessing the U.S. quality adjustment to computer prices: the role of durability and changing software / Robert C. Feenstra and Christopher R. Knittel; title: Hedonic imputation versus time dummy hedonic indexes / W. Erwin Diewert, Saeed Heravi, and Mick Silver; title: Comment: Jan de Haan; title: Reply by W. Erwin Diewert, Saeed Heravi and Mick Silver; title: CPI bias from supercenters: does the BLS know that Wal-Mart exists? / Jerry Hausman and Ephraim Leibtag; title: Comment: Marshall Reinsdorf; title: Comment: Mick Silver; title: Incorporating financial services in a consumer price index / Dennis Fixler; title: Comment: Susanto Basu; title: A general-equilibrium asset-pricing approach to the measurement of nominal and real bank output / J. Christina Wang, Susanto Basu, and John G. Fernald; title: Comment: Paul Schreyer; title: Can a disease-based price index improve the estimation of the medical CPI? / Xue Song, William D. Marder, Robert Houchens, Jonathan E. Conklin, and Ralph Bradley; title: Comment: Ernst R. Berndt; title: 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; title: Measuring the output and prices of the lottery sector: an application of implicit expected utility theory / Kam Yu; title: Comment: Alan G. White; title: Consumption of own production and cost of living indices / Peter Hill; title: Durables and owner occupied housing in a consumer price index / W. Erwin Diewert; title: Comment: Alan Heston.