On the equivalence of weighted country-productdummy (Cpd) method and the rao-system for multilateral price comparisons

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 571-580

  Rao, D S Prasada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 33745296690     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: 14754991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2005.00169.x     Document Type: Article

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