Hedonic regressions are used for residential property price index (RPPI) measurement to control for changes in the …

policy) rely on accurate measures of price change. Unfortunately, the price index formulae that most price statisticians … consumer price index. …

multilateral index number methods for computing month-to-month inflation. …

house price index. We quantify the extent to which disaggregated house prices indices have significantly more variability … than, and differing trends from, the aggregate index …

-homothetic case, these indexes are superior both to Fisher s ideal index and to the consumer surplus approximation. …

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 …

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 …