Scanner data, time aggregation and the construction of price indexes

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 24-35

  Ivancic, Lorraine ^a   Erwin Diewert, W ^b   Fox, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chain drift; Multilateral index number methods; Price indexes; Rolling window GEKS; Scanner data

Indexed keywords

BREAK DOWN; INDEX NUMBERS; ITEM CATEGORY; MULTILATERAL INDEX NUMBER METHODS; PRICE CHANGES; PRICE INDEX; PRICE INDEXES; ROLLING WINDOW GEKS; SCANNER DATA; TIME AGGREGATION;

COSTS; NUMBER THEORY; RETAIL STORES;

SCANNING;

EID: 79952452018     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2010.09.003     Document Type: Article

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