Price Index Concepts and Measurement
Erwin Diewert, John Greenlees and Charles Hulten, editors
Conference held June 28-29, 2004
Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press
in NBER Book Series Studies in Income and Wealth
The following chapters are preliminary drafts unless otherwise
noted. They have not yet been subjected to the formal review process
of the NBER. This page will be updated as individual chapters are
revised.
Table of Contents
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Introduction: What Are the Issues?:
Erwin Diewert, John Greenlees, Charles R. Hulten
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(download)
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A Review of Reviews: Ninety Years of Professional Thinking About the Consumer Price Index:
Marshall Reinsdorf, Jack E. Triplett
(bibliographic info)
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The Political Economy of Price Measurement: A Critique of the NRC Report “At What Price” and Beyond:
Charles R. Hulten
Comment:
Barry Bosworth
(bibliographic info)
(download)
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Apparel Prices 1914-93 and the Hulten/Bruegel Paradox:
Robert J. Gordon
(bibliographic info)
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Re-Assessing the U.S. Quality Adjustment to Computer Prices: The Role of Durability and Changing Software:
Robert C. Feenstra, Christopher R. Knittel
(bibliographic info)
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Hedonic Imputation versus Time Dummy Hedonic Indexes:
Erwin Diewert, Saeed Heravi, Mick Silver
(bibliographic info)
(download)
Comment:
Jan de Haan
(bibliographic info)
(download)
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Reply to Jan de Haan's comment on "Hedonic Imputation versus Time Dummy Hedonic Indexes:
Erwin Diewert, Saeed Heravi, Mick Silver
(bibliographic info)
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CPI Bias from Supercenters: Does the BLS Know that Wal-Mart Exists?:
Jerry Hausman, Ephraim Leibtag
(bibliographic info)
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Comment:
Marshall Reinsdorf
(bibliographic info)
(download)
Comment:
Mick Silver
(bibliographic info)
(download)
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Incorporating Financial Services in a Consumer Price Index:
Dennis Fixler
(bibliographic info)
(download)
Comment:
Susanto Basu
(bibliographic info)
(download)
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A General-Equilibrium Asset-Pricing Approach to the Measurement of Nominal and Real Bank Output:
J. Christina Wang, Susanto Basu, John G. Fernald
(bibliographic info)
(download)
version of April 28, 2008
Comment:
Paul Schreyer
(bibliographic info)
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10.
Can A Disease-Based Price Index Improve the Estimation of the Medical CPI?:
Xue Song, William D. Marder, Robert Houchens, Jonathan E. Conklin, Ralph Bradley
(bibliographic info)
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Comment:
Ernst R. Berndt
(bibliographic info)
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Price and Real Output Measures for the Education Function of Government: Exploratory Estimates for Primary & Secondary Education:
Barbara M. Fraumeni, Marshall B. Reinsdorf, Brooks B. Robinson, Matthew P. Williams
(bibliographic info)
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12.
Measuring the Output and Prices of the Lottery Sector: An Application of Implicit Expected Utility Theory:
Kam Yu
(bibliographic info)
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Comment:
Alan G. White
(bibliographic info)
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13.
Household Production, Consumption and CPIs:
Peter Hill
(bibliographic info)
(download)
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14.
Durables and Owner Occupied Housing in a Consumer Price Index:
Erwin Diewert
(bibliographic info)
(download)
Comment:
Alan Heston
(bibliographic info)
(download)
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