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CPI Bias from Supercenters: Does the BLS Know that Wal-Mart Exists?

Jerry Hausman, Ephraim Leibtag

Chapter in NBER book Price Index Concepts and Measurement (2009), W. Erwin Diewert, John S. Greenlees and Charles R. Hulten, editors (p. 203 - 231)
Conference held June 28-29, 2004
Published in December 2009 by University of Chicago Press
© 2009 by the National Bureau of Economic Research
in NBER Book Series Studies in Income and Wealth

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This chapter first appeared as NBER working paper w10712, CPI Bias from Supercenters: Does the BLS Know that Wal-Mart Exists?, Jerry Hausman, Ephraim Leibtag
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  Comment, Marshall Reinsdorf
  Comment, Mick Silver

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