Central Bank of Nigeria Library

Price indexes and quality change :

Price indexes and quality change : studies in new methods of measurement / - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, c1971. - x, 287 p. :ill,

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references: p. 275-281.

The papers fall into three categories : a brief introduction on the state of the art by Griliches and a theoretical discussion of quality change and its implications for the construction of price index numbers by Fisher and Shell; a series of papers outlining, applying, and extending the hedonic (regression) approach to price change measurement, starting with the early Griliches paper on automobiles and; two papers on the use of secondhand market prices for the measurement of quality change.

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Price indexes.
Quality of products.


United States.

HB225 / .P75

338.52'8 / PRI