Direct and indirect time dummy approaches to hedonic price measurement

Journal of Economic and Social Measurement

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 427-443

  de Haan, Jan ^a  

^a STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consumer price index; Hedonic regression; Quality adjustment; Sampling

Indexed keywords

HEDONIC ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PRICE DETERMINATION; SAMPLING;

EID: 14544286846     PISSN: 07479662     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/jem-2004-0235     Document Type: Article

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