We review in considerable detail the conceptual and measurement issues that underlie construction of medical care price … treatment, rather than prices of fixed bundles of inputs. We outline features of a proposed new experimental price index -- a … medical care expenditure price index -- that is more suitable for evaluation and analyses of medical care cost changes, than …

indices. Since the matched model index does not incorporate price changes for goods which exit, and the goods that exited tend … to be those goods whose prices fall, the matched model index has a selection problem which biases it upwards. The hedonic … index does not have this problem. We illustrate with a new study of price indices for PC's. The hedonic index shows steep …

No cross-sectional consumer price index is currently available by state, and the BLS's cross-sectional "family budget …" index for metropolitan areas is not well-suited for cross-state analyses. In this paper we propose an algorithm for … constructing a state-specific Laspeyres price index using conveniently available information from the Census of Business and the …

The composite index of leading indicators is found to be a valuable tool for predicting not only the direction but also … index as a predictor of (1) business cycle turning points as dated by the National Bureau of Economic Research and (2 …) quantitative changes in real GNP and the composite index of coincident indicators. Specific smoothing rules are identified which …

the measurement of capital services and connects it to the Jorgenson-Griliches (1967) paper on the "explanation of …

substantial increase in spending has been worth it. Using discrete choice methods to estimate demand, we construct a price index … drug quality. A naive price index, which makes no adjustments for the changing attributes of drugs on the market, greatly … overstates the true price increase. By contrast, a hedonic price index and two quality-adjusted price indices show that prices …