An Experimental Component Index for the CPI: From Annual Computer Data to Monthly Data on Other Goods
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An Experimental Component Index for the CPI: From Annual Computer Data to Monthly Data on Other Goods
The CPI component indices are obtained from comparing price quotes at a given store in different periods. If we omit comparisons from goods in the store in the initial, but not in the comparison, period we generate a selection bias: goods that exit are disproportionately obsolete goods that have falling prices. Building on Pakes (2003), we explain why standard hedonic predictions for second-per...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Review
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0002-8282
DOI: 10.1257/aer.101.5.1707