Hedonic prices indexes for new passenger cars in Portugal (1997-2001)

Economic Modelling

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 890-908

  Reis, Hugo J ^a   Santos Silva, J M C ^b  

^a DEE/Banco   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

CPI bias; Parameter stability; Weighted least squares

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750026161     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2006.04.003     Document Type: Article

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