Research Catalog

Title

Price index concepts and measurement / edited by W. Erwin Diewert, John Greenlees, and Charles Hulten.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Diewert, W. E. (W. Erwin)
• Greenlees, John Shearer.
• Hulten, Charles R.
• Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.

Description

ix, 519 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 70

Uniform Title

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 70.

Subject

• Indexation (Economics) > Congresses
• Inflation (Finance) > Congresses
• Price indexes > Congresses

Note

• "This volume contains revised versions of most of the papers and discussions presented at the Conference on Research and Income and Wealth entitled 'Price index concepts and measurement,' held in Vancouver, British Columbia on June 28-29, 2004"--P. ix.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction: what are the issues? / W. Erwin Diewert, John Greenlees, and Charles Hulten -- A review of reviews: ninety years of professional thinking about the consumer price index / Marshall Reinsdorf and Jack E. Triplett -- Apparel prices 1914-1993 and the Hulten/Bruegel paradox / Robert J. Gordon -- Reassessing the U.S. quality adjustment to computer prices: the role of durability and changing software / Robert C. Feenstra and Christopher R. Knittel -- Hedonic imputation versus time dummy hedonic indexes / W. Erwin Diewert, Saeed Heravi, and Mick Silver -- Comment: Jan de Haan -- Reply / by W. Erwin Diewert, Saeed Heravi, and Mick Silver -- CPI bias from supercenters: does the BLS know that Wal-Mart exists? / Jerry Hausman and Ephraim Leibtag -- Comment: Marshall Reinsdorf -- Comment: Mick Silver -- Incorporating financial services in a consumer price index / Dennis Fixler -- Comment: Susanto Basu -- A general equilibrium asset-pricing approach to the measurement of nominal and real bank output / J. Christina Wang, Susanto Basu, and John G. Fernald -- Comment: Paul Schreyer -- Can a disease-based price index improve the estimation of the medical consumer price index? / Xue Song ... [et al.] -- Comment: Ernst R. Berndt -- Price and real output measures for the education function of government: exploratory estimates for primary and secondary education / Barbara M. Fraumeni ... [et al.] -- Measuring the output and prices of the lottery sector: an application of implicit expected utility theory / Kam Yu -- Comment: Alan G. White -- Consumption of own production and cost-of-living indexes / T. Peter Hill -- Durables and owner-occupied housing in a consumer price index / W. Erwin Diewert -- Comment: Alan Heston.

Call Number

JBE 10-323

ISBN

• 9780226148557 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0226148556 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009017691

OCLC

317923092

Title

Price index concepts and measurement / edited by W. Erwin Diewert, John Greenlees, and Charles Hulten.

Imprint

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Series

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 70

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 70.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Diewert, W. E. (W. Erwin)

Greenlees, John Shearer.

Hulten, Charles R.

Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.

Research Call Number

JBE 10-323