NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Price Measurements and Their Uses

Murry Foss, Marylin Manser, and Allan Young, editors

Conference held March 22-23, 1990
Published in January 1993 by University of Chicago Press
© 1993 by the National Bureau of Economic Research
in NBER Book Series Studies in Income and Wealth

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409 pp. pages
ISBN: 0-226-25730-4

Table of Contents

1. Front matter, Price Measurements and Their Uses: Murray Foss, Marilyn Manser, Allan Young (p. -14 - 0) (bibliographic info) (download)

2. Introduction to "Price Measurements and Their Uses": Murray Foss, Marilyn Manser, Allan Young (p. 1 - 16) (bibliographic info) (download)

3. I High-Tech Products: Computers: (p. 17 - 18) (bibliographic info) (download)

4. Constant-Quality Price Change , Depreciation, and Retirement of Mainframe Computers: Stephen D. Oliner (p. 19 - 62) (bibliographic info) (download)

5. Price Indexes for Microcomputers: An Exploratory Study: Ernst R. Berndt, Zvi Griliches (p. 63 - 100) (bibliographic info) (download)

6. II High-Tech Products: Semiconductors: (p. 101 - 102) (bibliographic info) (download)

7. Sources of Price Decline in Computer Processors : Selected Electronic Components : Ellen Dulberger (p. 103 - 124) (bibliographic info) (download)

8. Cost Function Estimation of Quality Change in Semiconductors: John Norsworthy, Show-Ling Jang (p. 125 - 156) (bibliographic info) (download)

9. Measurement of DRAM Prices: Technology and Market Structure: Kenneth Flamm (p. 157 - 206) (bibliographic info) (download)

10. III Quality-Change Issues in Consumer Prices: (p. 207 - 208) (bibliographic info) (download)

11. Adjusting Apparel Indexes in the Consumer Price Index for Quality Differences: Paul R. Liegey, Jr (p. 209 - 226) (bibliographic info) (download)

12. The Effect of Outlet Price Differentials on the U.S. Consumer Price Index: Marshall Reinsdorf (p. 227 - 258) (bibliographic info) (download)

13. IV Transaction Prices: (p. 259 - 260) (bibliographic info) (download)

14. The Problem of List Prices in the Producer Price Index: The Steel Mill Products Case: Thomas Betsock, Irwin Gerduk (p. 261 - 274) (bibliographic info) (download)

15. Does Government Regulation Inhibit the Reporting of Transactions Prices by Business?: Murray Foss (p. 275 - 304) (bibliographic info) (download)

16. V Price Indexes for Defense: (p. 305 - 306) (bibliographic info) (download)

17. The Deflation of Military Aircraft : Richard Ziemer, Pamela A. Kelly (p. 307 - 348) (bibliographic info) (download)

18. VI BEA’s Treatment of Computer Prices and Productivity Measurement: (p. 349 - 350) (bibliographic info) (download)

19. Panel Discussion: Implications of BEA’s Treatment of Computer Prices and Productivity Measurement: (p. 351 - 374) (bibliographic info) (download)

20. Contributors: (p. 375 - 376) (bibliographic info) (download)

21. Author Index: (p. 377 - 380) (bibliographic info) (download)

22. Subject Index: (p. 381 - 389) (bibliographic info) (download)

 
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