New products, quality changes and welfare measures computed from estimated demand systems
This paper examines the construction of a price index based on an estimated demand system. In principle the method examined can produce a price index that accounts for introduction of new products and quality changes in existing products. However, I isolate two key assumptions that have to be made...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | English |
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Cambridge
National Bureau of Economic Research
2001.
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| Series: | NBER working paper series
no. 8425 |
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