Purpose: One of the main questions about the future of print and electronic books is whether the second will replace the first. Although the electronic book was first introduced to the public in 1971, the trend of reading e-books did not gain popularity until the previous decade. The recent...

When there are many attributes, experiments with Conjoint Analysis include problems of information overload that affect the validity of such experiments. The impact of these problems can be avoided or reduced by using Hierarchical Information Integration (HII). The present work aims to...

This paper computes a quality adjusted price index for the personal computer CPU from 1996 to 2000. The index is based on the pure characteristics demand model. I first compute the quality adjusted price index for the whole market, and show that it is very comparable with the hedonic price index...