Quality-corrected price indices: The case of the Dutch new passenger car market, 1990-1999

Applied Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1169-1197

  van Dalen, Jan ^a   Bode, Ben ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; COMMODITY MARKET; MARKET CONDITIONS; NATIONAL TRADE; PRICE DYNAMICS;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 3543128967     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0003684042000247361     Document Type: Article

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