A failure in the measurement of inflation: Results from a hedonic and matched experiment using scanner data

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 269-281

  Silver, Mick ^a   Heravi, Saeed ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumer price index; Hedonic index; Hedonic regression; Index number; Inflation; Quality adjustment

Indexed keywords

EID: 22544467006     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/073500104000000343     Document Type: Article

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