TY  - JOUR
AU  - White,Alan G.
AU  - Abel,Jaison R.
AU  - Berndt,Ernst R.
AU  - Monroe,Cory W.
TI  - Hedonic Price Indexes for Personal Computer Operating Systems and Productivity Suites
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 10427
PY  - 2004
Y2  - April 2004
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10427
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10427.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Alan G. White
Analysis Group
111 Huntington Avenue, 10th Floor
Boston, MA  02199
E-Mail: awhite@rotman.utoronto.ca

Jaison Abel
Microeconomic and Regional Studies
Research and Statistics Group
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
237 Main Street, Suite 1200
Buffalo, New York 14203
Tel: 716-849-5010
Fax: 716-849-5021
E-Mail: jaison.abel@ny.frb.org

Ernst R. Berndt
MIT Sloan School of Management
100 Main Street, E62-518
Cambridge, MA 02142
Tel: 617/253-2665
Fax: 617-227-0880
E-Mail: eberndt@mit.edu

Cory Monroe
MIT
E-Mail: cwmonroe@MIT.EDU
M1  - published as Alan G. White, Jaison R. Abel, Ernst R. Berndt, Cory W. Monroe. "Hedonic Price Indexes for Personal Computer Operating Systems and Produtivity Suites," in Jacques Mairesse and Manuel Trajtenberg, editors, "Contributions in Memory of Zvi Griliches" Annales D'Économie et de Statistique, 79-80, July-December 2005 (2010)

AB  - Results of hedonic price regressions for personal computer operating systems and productivity suites advertised in PC World magazine by retail vendors during the time period 1984 to 2000 are reported. Among the quality attribute variables we use are new measures capturing the presence of network effects in personal computer operating systems, such as connectivity and compatibility, and product integration among components of productivity suites. Average annual growth rates of quality-adjusted prices of personal computer operating systems range from -15 to -18 percent, while those for productivity suites generally range between -13 and -16 percent. Price declines are generally greater in the latter half of the samples.
ER  -