This paper begins by comparing hedonic price indexes to the standard matched model index. The matched model index is formed as an average of the price changes of the goods in the sample in the base period that remain on the sampled stores' shelves in the comparison period. Since goods that do...

This paper considers the problem of hiring scientists for research and development projects when one takes explicit account of the fact that the scientist may be able to use the information acquired during the project in a rival enterprise. Management's problem is to determine an optimum labor...

This paper provides a justification for hedonic price indices and details the properties of hedonic price functions. The analysis is done in a market setting in which a finite number of goods, each defined by its characteristics, interact. We note that proper hedonic indices can be constructed...