Accounting for the effects of new and disappearing goods using scanner data

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 547-568

  Melser, Daniel ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 33845381139     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: 14754991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2006.00203.x     Document Type: Review

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