TY - BOOK AU - Griliches,Zvi ED - Price Statistics Committee, Federal Reserve Board. TI - Price indexes and quality change: studies in new methods of measurement SN - 0674704207 AV - HB225 .P75 U1 - 338.52'8 PY - 1971/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - Harvard University Press KW - Price indexes KW - Quality of products KW - United States N1 - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references: p. 275-281. N2 - 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. ER -