Handbook on hedonic indexes and quality adjustments in price indexes special application to information technology products
Price indexes can be constructed using a “hedonic method” that adjusts for changes in the quality of a product by focusing on a set of key product characteristics. This handbook contributes to a better understanding of the merits and shortcomings of conventional and hedonic price indexes and methods...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Paris :
OECD
c2006.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705444306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword
- Executive Summary
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Relevance of Quality Adjustment for ICT Products; Potential Impact of Mismeasurement on International Productivity Comparisons; and Purpose and Outline of this Volume
- Chapter 2. Quality Adjustments in Conventional Price Index Methodologies
- Chapter 3. Hedonic Price Indexes and Hedonic Quality Adjustments
- Chapter 4. When Do Hedonic and Matched Model Indexes Give Different Results and Why?
- Chapter 5. Principles for Estimating a Hedonic Function: Choosing the Variables
- Chapter 6. Estimating Hedonic Functions: Other Research Issues
- Chapter 7. Some Objections to Hedonic Indexes
- Chapter 8. Theoretical Appendix. Theory of Hedonic Functions and Hedonic Indexes
