Quality Change in Price Indexes

Journal of Economic Perspectives

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 59-68

  Nordhaus, William D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0010638359     PISSN: 08953309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/jep.12.1.59     Document Type: Article

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