Estimating Exact Hedonic Indexes: An Application to UK Television Sets

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 71-94

  Ioannidis, Christos ^a   Silver, Mick ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumer price indices; Hedonic; Quality adjusted prices; Television sets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347666063     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01231212     Document Type: Article

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