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A

AC Neilsen, USA
Hawkes, The Use of Scanner Data in Reconciling Time-series (Consumer Price Index) and Geographic (Place-to-Place) Price Comparisons (PDF file 94 KB)
Hawkes, Reconciliation of consumer price index trends with corresponding trends in average prices for quasi-homogeneous goods using scanning data (PDF file 121 KB)

Akava
Koev, Combining Classification and Hedonic Quality adjustment in Constructing a House Price Index (PDF file 662 KB)

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
Abello, Construction of Price Indexes and Exploration of Biases Using Scanner Data (PDF file 331 KB)
Caddy, Using scanner data to explore unit value indexes (Room document) (PDF file 268 KB)
Frost, The construction of price indexes for deposit and loan facilities (PDF file 75 KB)
Jain, Construction of Price Indexes and Exploration of Biases Using Scanner Data (PDF file 331 KB)
Jain, Using scanner data to explore unit value indexes (Room Document) (PDF file 268 KB)
Neideck / Olczyk, Measuring House Price Movements: methods, issues and some recent experiences in the Australian Context (PDF file 149 KB)
Neideck, A Framework for the accuracy dimension of data quality of price statistics (PDF file 127 KB)
Vassiliou, Consumer price indexes for telecommunication services based on a sample of customer bills: Summary of progress (Room Document) (PDF file 97 KB)
Woolford, E-commerce and Data Capture Opportunities for Price Indexes (PDF file 221 KB)
Woolford, A Pragmatic Approach to the Selection of Appropriate Index Formulae (PDF file 73 KB)
Woolford, Experimental Price Indexes for Financial Services (PDF file 827 KB)
Woolford, Financial Services in the Consumer Price Index (PDF file 154 KB)
Woolford, Retail Trade Margins Price Indexes (Room document) (PDF file 436 KB)

C

Cardiff University
Heravi, Quality Adjustment, Sample Rotation and CPI practice: An Experiment (PDF file 162 KB)
Morgan, Sampling in Consumer Price Indices: what role for scanner data? (PDF file 232 KB)
Silver, The Measurement of Quality-Adjusted Prices Changes (PDF file 113 KB)
Silver, Sampling in Consumer Price Indices: what role for scanner data? (PDF file 232 KB)
Silver, Quality Adjustment, Sample Rotation and CPI practice: An Experiment (PDF file 162 KB)
Silver, Bias in the Compilation of Consumer Price Indices when Different Models of an Item Coexist (PDF file 126 KB)
Silver, An evaluation of the use of hedonic regressions for basic components of consumer price indices (PDF file 92 KB)
Silver, Chained, exact and superlative hedonic price changes: estimates from micro data (PDF file 113 KB)
Silver, Hedonic quality adjustments for non-comparable items for consumer price indices (PDF file 84 KB)
Silver, Why Price Index Number Formulae Differ: Economic Theory and Evidence on Price Dispersion (PDF file 383 KB)
Silver, The Use of Weights in Hedonic Regressions: the Measurement of Quality-Adjusted Price Changes (PDF file 258 KB)
Silver, The difference between hedonic imputation indexes and the time dummy hedonic indexes for desktop pcs (PDF file 265 KB)

Central Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS)
Statistics Netherlands
Balk, Lowe and Cobb-Douglas CPIs and their substitution bias (PDF file 153 KB)
Balk, On Curing the CPI's Substitution and New Goods Bias (PDF file 216 KB)
Balk, On the First Step in the Calculation of a Consumer Price Index (PDF file 648 KB)
Balk, On the Use of Unit Value Indices as Consumer Price Subindices (PDF file 55 KB)
Balk, Price Indexes for Elementary Aggregates: the Sampling Approach (PDF file 248 KB)
Balk, The consumer price index and income escalation (PDF file 482 KB)
Bode, Quality-corrected price indexes of new passenger cars in the Netherlands, 1990-1999 (PDF file 189 KB)
de Haan, An Almost Ideal Hedonic Price Index for Televisions (PDF file 201 KB)
de Haan, Direct and Indirect Time Dummy Approaches to Hedonic Price Measurement (PDF file 234 KB)
de Haan, Estimation of the coffee price index using scanner data: simulation of official practices (PDF file 102 KB)
de Haan, Estimation of the coffee price index using scanner data: the choice of the micro index (PDF file 102 KB)
de Haan, Generalised Fisher Price Indexes and the Use of Scanner Data in the CPI (PDF file 200 KB)
de Haan, Hedonic Price Indexes: A Comparison of Imputation, Time Dummy and Other Approaches (Room document) (PDF file 202 KB)
de Haan, Time dummy hedonic index as a specific case of Törnqvist index (PDF file 253 KB)
de Haan / Balk / Boldsen Hansen, Retrospective Approximations of Superlative Price Indexes for Years where Expenditure Data is Unavailable (PDF file 109 KB)
de Haan / Van Der Grient, Eliminating Chain Drift in Price Indexes Based on Scanner Data (PDF file 407 KB)
Hoven, Some observations on quality adjustments in the Netherlands (PDF file 119 KB)
Van Dalen, Quality-corrected price indexes of new passenger cars in the Netherlands, 1990-1999 (PDF file 189 KB)
Van Der Grient, An Almost Ideal Hedonic Price Index for Televisions (PDF file 201 KB)
Van Tuinen, Price index numbers of complementary goods (PDF file 126 KB)

Central Statistical Office, Poland
Gluchowska, Pricing some complex products for the CPI needs (based on the Polish practice) (PDF file 155 KB)

Central Statistical Office, UK
Haworth, Sampling and Data Capture Issues in CPI Construction (PDF file 1554 KB)

Clariden Leu Ltd.
Huwiler, Measures of core inflation in Switzerland: An evaluation of alternative calculation methods for monetary policy (PDF file 23 KB)

D

Deutches Bundesbank, Germany
Hoffmann, The Treatment of Quality Changes in the German Consumer Price Index (PDF file 121 KB)
Mehrhoff, Aggregate Indices and Their Corresponding Elementary Indices (PDF file 1.3MB)
Mehrhoff / Breuer, Is Inflation Heterogeneously Distributed Among Income Groups? (PDF file 922 KB)

E

Erasmus University
Balk, Lowe and Cobb-Douglas CPIs and their substitution bias PDF file 153 KB)
de Haan / Balk / Hansen, Retrospective Approximations of Superlative Price Indexes for Years where Expenditure Data is Unavailable (PDF file 109 KB)

European Central Bank (ECB)
Eiglsperger / Schackis, Weights in the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices: Selected aspects from a user's perspective (PDF file 88 KB)

F

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Reinsdorf, Divisia indexes and the representative consumer problem (PDF file 189 KB)

Federal Reserve Board
Gagnon, Price Setting during Low and High Inflation: Evidence from Mexico (PDF file 611 KB)

H

Hitotsubashi University
Shimizu, C / Nishimura / Watanabe, House Prices and Rents in Tokyo: A Comparison of Repeat-Sales and Hedonic Measures (PDF file 391 KB)
Shimizu, C / Nishimura / Watanabe, Residential Rents and Price Rigidity: Micro Structure an Macro Consequences (Room Document) (PDF file 222 KB)

I

Institut national de la statistique et des estudes economiques (INEE)
National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies
Bascher, On the use of hedonic methods in the CPI: an application to consumer durables and apparel (PDF file 110 KB)
Bascher, Dish-washers and PCs in the French CPI: hedonic modelling, from design to practice (PDF file 86 KB)
Guédès, Fashion and Consumer Price Index (PDF file 89 KB)
Lacroix, On the use of hedonic methods in the CPI: an application to consumer durables and apparel (PDF file 110 KB)
Lacroix, Dish-washers and PCs in the French CPI: hedonic modelling, from design to practice (PDF file 86 KB)
Lacroix, Methodology for constructing a price index for mobile-telephony services (PDF file 176 KB)
Magnien, Measuring price change in mobile-telephony services: an arduous task (PDF file 283 KB)

Instituto Nacinal de Estadisticas de Chile (INE)
Chilean Institute of Statistics
Hintze, Jara, Meneses, Ruiz, Schkolnik, Videla-Hintze, The New Chilean CPI (PDF file 47 KB)
Alviz et al, The New Chilean CPI (Room document) (PDF file 129 KB)

International Labour Office
ILO, Draft resolution on Consumer Price Indices (PDF file 201 KB)
Stoevska, Status and Updating of the CPI Manual (PDF file 20 KB)

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Armknecht, Improving the efficiency of the U.S. CPI (PDF file 145 KB)
Armknecht, Improvements to the Food at Home, Shelter and Prescription Drug Indexes in the U.S. Consumer Price Index (PDF file 1143 KB)
Silver, An Index Number Formula Problem: the Aggregation of Broadly Comparable Items (PDF file 136 KB)
Silver, Do Unit Value Export, Import, and Terms of Trade Indices Represent or Misrepresent Price Indices? (PDF file 159 KB)
Zieschang, Price Indices for Financial Services (PDF file 133 KB)
Zieschang / Silver, A Note on Long run analytical CPI series that avoid discontinuities on rebasing (PDF file 59 KB)

Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics
Finkel, The Consumer Price Index Development Project in Israel: An integrated approach (PDF file 25 KB)
Finkel, Automization in the CPI, Quality Assurance and EFQM (PDF file 197 KB)
Finkel, Price Indices for Telecommunication Services in the Israeli CPI (PDF file 126 KB)
Finkel, E-commerce in the Israeli CPI (PDF file 218 KB)
Finkel / Roshal, Various CPI Aggregation Schemes: Empirical Study of Israeli Data (PDF file 385 KB)
Finkel / Rakhmilevich / Roshal, Different Approaches to the Treatment of Seasonal Products: Tests on the Israeli CPI (PDF file 363 KB)
Givol, The Consumer Price Index Development Project in Israel: An integrated approach (PDF file 25 KB)
Merav Oren, Price Indices for Telecommunication Services in the Israeli CPI (PDF file 126 KB)
Yiftach, E-commerce in the Israeli CPI (PDF file 218 KB)

Istituto Nazionale Di statistica (ISTAT)
Biggeri / Laureti / Polidoro, Measuring and Interpreting core inflation: evidence from Italy (PDF file 685 KB)
Montella / Mostacci / Zanolini, Consumer Price Indexes for Telecommunication Services in Italy: Work in Progress (PDF file 267 KB)

J

Jörgen Dalén Statistical Consulting
Dalén, A Prposal for a new system of aggregation in the Swedish Consumer Price Index (PDF file 159 KB)
Dalén, Designing a CPI in a developing country. Some experiences (Room Document) (PDF file 266 KB)
Dalén, On the statistical objective of a Laspeyres' price index (PDF file 108 KB)

K

Korea National Statistical Office
Lee, How to Reflect Quality Change in the CPI: The Case of Korea (PDF file 45 KB)

M

Ministère de la Justice, France
Saglio, Comparative changes in Average Price and Price Index: Two case studies (PDF file 1090 KB)

Ministry of Commerce, Thailand
Orapin, Puntumeka, Mobile Phone Services in Thailand Consumer Price Index (PDF file 84 KB)

N

National Statistics Centre, Japan
Nitta, The Present Situation of E-Commerce and a Pilot Survey on E-Commerce (PDF file 144 KB)
Okamoto, Comparison of Hedonic Indices Compiled using Different Types of Weights (PDF file 315 KB)
Okamoto, The Present Situation of E-Commerce and a Pilot Survey on E-Commerce (PDF file 144 KB)

O

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Blades, Consumer journals and hedonics: a puzzle (PDF file 35 KB)

Office Fédéral de la Statistique (FSO)
Swiss Federal Statistical Office
Becker Vermeulen, Quality assurance of the Swiss consumer price index (PDF file 287 KB)
Becker Vermeulen / Herren, Rents in Switzerland: sampling and quality adjustment (Room Document) (PDF file 128 KB)
Röthlisberger, Swiss CPI: Initial Experience with the new Medicine Price Index (PDF file 93 KB)

Oesterreichische Nationalbank
Fritzer / Glatzer, Group Specific Inflation Rates for Austrian Households (PDF file 373 KB)

Office for National Statistics, UK (ONS)
Ball, Sampling in Consumer Price Indices: what role for scanner data? (PDF file 232 KB)
Brueton, Internet retail channels in Price Indices: the challenges involved in including non-traditional retailers in the UK Retail Prices Index (PDF file 242 KB)
Fenwick, Costing mobile telephone calls: The use of constrained user profiles (PDF file 113 KB)
Fenwick, Ethical price indices: the case for a cost of consumption index (PDF file 82 KB)
Fenwick, Internet retail channels in Price Indices: the challenges involved in including non-traditional retailers in the UK Retail Prices Index (PDF file 242 KB)
Fenwick, Recent developments in the UK Retail Prices Index: Quality Management (PDF file 150 KB)
Fenwick, Sampling in Consumer Price Indices: what role for scanner data? (PDF file 236 KB)
Fenwick, Supplementary Handbooks to the ILO CPI Manual: Handbook of Practical Issues on CPI Construction Confronted by Developing Countries (PDF file 101 KB)
Fenwick, The impact of choice of base month on the relative performance of different formulae used for aggregation of Consumer Price Index data at an elementary aggregate level (PDF file 43 KB)
Fenwick, The Impact of Sample Design on the Performance of the Sample Geometric Mean and Related Issues (PDF file 72 KB)
Fenwick, The Quality Adjustment Matrix (PDF file 218 KB)
Fenwick / O'Donoghue / Powell, Personal Inflation: Perceptions And Experiences (PDF file 326 KB)
Haworth, Hedonic quality adjustments for non-comparable items for consumer price indices (PDF file 85 KB)
Haworth, IInflation measurement in the UK (PDF file 76 KB)
Haworth, Recent developments in the UK Retail Prices Index: Quality Management (PDF file 150 KB)
Haworth, UK RPI: A cost of living index or an inflation indicator? (PDF file 1397 KB)

Q

Queen's University
Smith, The Missing Links: Better Measures of Inflation and Inflation Expectations in Canada (Room Document) (PDF file 270 KB)

R

Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Roger, A robust measure of core inflation in New Zealand, 1949-96 (PDF file 181 KB)

Reitaku University
Shimizu, C / Nishimura / Watanabe, House Prices and Rents in Tokyo: A Comparison of Repeat-Sales and Hedonic Measures (PDF file 391 KB)
Shimizu, C / Nishimura / Watanabe, Residential Rents and Price Rigidity: Micro Structure an Macro Consequences (Room Document) (PDF file 222 KB)

S

Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat)
Astin, Quality Adjustment in CPIs - A Personal View (PDF file 26 KB)
Astin, The European Union Harmonized Indices of Consumer Prices (HICP) (PDF file 31 KB)
Astin, Harmonization in the European Union: a review of some technical issues (PDF file 94 KB)
Makaronidis, On the treatment of newly significant goods and services in the HICP: the cases of electricity markets, e-commerce and mobile telephony (PDF file 153 KB)
Sellwood, The harmonisation of quality adjustment practices in the European Union (PDF file 12 KB)
Sellwood, Constraining unwarranted variations in sampling and quality adjustment practices in the construction of CPI elementary aggregates (PDF file 44 KB)
Sellwood, In search of new approaches to the problem of quality adjustments in CPI (PDF file 78 KB)
Sellwood, Harmonization in the European Union: a review of some technical issues (PDF file 94 KB)
Sellwood, Constraining Macro Effects of the Use of Different Methods at the Basic Level in the Project to Harmonise Consumer Price Indices in the European Union (PDF file 804 KB)
Viglino, Insurance and quality adjustment: excess and option-cost method (PDF file 160 KB)

Statistics Bureau of Japan
Okamoto, Comparison of Hedonic Method and Matched Models Using Scanner Data: The Case of PCs, TVs, and Digital Cameras (PDF file 204 KB)
Okamoto, Midpoint-year Basket Index as a Practical Approximation to Superlative Index (PDF file 133 KB)
Sato, Outlet Sampling Method on the 1997 National Survey of Prices (PDF file 38 KB)
Sato, Comparison of Hedonic Method and Matched Models Using Scanner Data: The Case of PCs, TVs, and Digital Cameras (PDF file 204 KB)
Shimizu, CPI and Household Income Expenditure under deflationary trend (PDF file 215 KB)
Shimizu, Telecommunications Indices in the Japanese CPI (PDF file 66 KB)
Shimizu, M, Hedonic Approach for House Rents in Japan (PDF file 166 KB)

Statistics Canada (StatCan)
Beelen, Should a CPI attempt to hold all risk factors constant in pricing non-life insurance services (PDF file 203 KB)
Chaffe / Ezzaouali / Lequain An Alternative Collection Method and Its Impact on Accuracy, Reliability and Efficiency of the CPI Program: The case of automobile insurance in Canada (PDF file 57 KB)
Harchaoui / Hume / Withington, Accounting for the Difference between the CPI and Personal Consumption Expenditure Deflator (PDF file 157 KB)
Lowe, Televisions: Quality changes and scanner data (PDF file 74 KB)
Lowe, The type and extent of quality change adjustments in the Canadian CPI (PDF file 985 KB)
Lowe, Item selection and quality change in the Canadian CPI (PDF file 162 KB)
Lowe, The use of regression approach to quality change for durables in Canada (PDF file 65 KB)
Lowe, E-commerce and consumer behaviour (PDF file 174 KB)
O’Donnell / Mathieu Lequain, The Bortkiewicz Decomposition: A Useful Tool To Perform Quality Assurance for the CPI Basket Update (Room document)(PDF file 353 KB)
Prud’homme / Baldwin / Nakamura: An empirical analysis of the different concepts for owned accommodation in the Canadian CPI: The case of Ottawa, 1996-2005 (PDF file 338 KB)
Prud'homme / Erdur, House Price Indexes at Statistics Canada: Practices and Research (PDF file 166 KB)

Schultz, Treatment of changes in product quality in consumer price indices (PDF file 968 KB)
Schultz, User-cost Approach to the Estimation of Price Change for Private Transportation, Experimental study in the spirit of the Cost-of-Living Index (PDF file 104 KB)
Schultz, Alternative estimates of price change for private transportation (PDF file 265 KB)
Schultz, Choice of Price Index Formulae at the Micro-Aggregation Level: The Canadian Empirical Evidence By Bohdan J. Schultz, Statistics Canada (PDF file 167 KB)
Schultz, Effects of Using Various Macro-Index Formulae in Longitudinal Price and Volume Comparisons, Canadian Empirical Studies (PDF file 69 KB)
Yu, Trends in Internet Access Prices in Canada (PDF file 235 KB)

Statistics Finland
Kinnunen, Hedonic method is practicable in CPI compilation (PDF file 68 KB)
Koskimäki, Segmented Markets and CPI Elementary Classifications (PDF file 274 KB)
Koskimäki, Beyond matched pairs and Griliches-type hedonic methods for controlling quality changes in CPI sub-indices: Mathematical considerations and empirical examples on the use of linear and non-linear models with time-dependent quality parameters (PDF file 303 KB)
Manninen, The Effects of the Quality Adjustment Method on Price Indices for Digital Cameras (PDF file 440 KB)
Weckström-Eno, Selected difficult areas in the Finnish CPI (PDF file 168 KB)
Ylä-Jarkko, Segmented Markets and CPI Elementary Classifications (PDF file 274 KB)

Statistics Iceland
Guðnason, Improved methods for the evaluation of the composition and quantity of household goods (PDF file 38 KB)
Guðnason, Note on the practices in the field of insurance, financial services and public prices policies in the Icelandic CPI (PDF file 22 KB)
Guðnason, Use of cash register data (PDF file 22 KB)
Guðnason, Simple User Cost and Rentals (PDF file 162 KB)
Guðnason, Ottawa Group quality database (OGQD) (PDF file 14 KB)
Guðnason, Telecommunications services in the CPI - a quantity approach (PDF file 150 KB)
Guðnason, Comparison of different sources for weights of selected groups in the Icelandic CPI: Consumers bar-code cash receipts vs scanner data from supermarkets (PDF file 19 KB)
Guðnason, How do we measure inflation? Some measurement problems (PDF file 287 KB)
Snorrason, Use of Cash Register Data (PDF file 22 KB)
Guðnason, / Jónsdóttir , G / Jónasdóttir, L, The effect of House Market downturn on House Price Index (PDF, 261 KB)
Guðnason, / Jónsdóttir , G / Jónasdóttir, L, The impact of Financial Crises on the CPI (Room Document) (PDF, 92 KB)

Statistics New Zealand
Lindsay / Ho / Pike, New Zealand consumers price index: retrospective superlative index time series (Room Document) (PDF file 188 KB)
Liyange, The Difference between the Consumers Price Index and the Household Consumption Expenditure Implicit Price Deflator: A Preliminary Analysis (Room document) (PDF file 280 KB)
Griffiths, Core inflation measures produced in New Zealand (PDF file 279 KB)
Nimmo / Pike, Consumer Price Index: Retrospective Superlative Index and Impact of Alternative Housing Weights (PDF file 267 KB)
Pike, New Zealand 2006 CPI Review: Price Updating (Room document) (PDF file 218 KB)
Pike/ Nimmo / Mariposa, New Zealand 2006 and 2008 Consumers Price Index Reviews: Price Updating (Room Document) (PDF file 317 KB)
Stott, Financial Services (credit services) in the New Zealand CPI (PDF file 26 KB)
Stott, The CPI purpose and definition - the Australasian Debate (PDF file 103 KB)

Statistics Norway
Griffiths / Johannessen, The Statistics New Zealand and SSB Consumers Price Indexes: A Comparison (PDF file 645 KB)
Johannessen, Owner occupied housing in the Norwegian CPI (PDF file 206 KB)
Sandberg, Quality adjustments and capital goods (PDF file 49 KB)
Sandberg, Note on selected difficult areas of consumer price indices (PDF file 236 KB)
Johansen / Nygaard, Owner-Occupied Housing in the Norwegian HICP (Room Document) (PDF file 120 KB)

Statistics South Africa
Kelly, Overhauling the South African CPI: 2005-2009 (Room document) (PDF file 46 KB)
Kelly / Everts, Clearing out the sales: Removing a downward bias in a clothing and footwear index (PDF file 60 KB)

Statistik Austria
Haschka, Market Liberalisation in the Austrian CPI/HICP (PDF file 87 KB)
Haschka, Simple Methods of Explicit QA for Services in Complex Pricing Schemes (PDF file 209 KB)

Statistika Centralbyran (SCB)
Statistics Sweden
Dalén, A statistical interpretation of CPI comparability (PDF file 434 KB)
Dalén, Experiments with Swedish scanner data (PDF file 33 KB)
Dalén, Sensitivity Analyses for Harmonising European Consumer Price Indices (PDF file 1041 KB)
Dalén, Swedish CPI practices for difficult areas with a note on CPI Sub-indexes for services with income-dependent fees (PDF file 240 KB)
Dalén, What is the Monetary Union price index? (PDF file 31 KB)
Moses, Research on Improved Quality Adjustment in the CPI: The Case of Televisions (PDF file 137 KB)
Norberg, Comparison of Variance Estimators for the Consumer Price Index (PDF file 386 KB)
Norberg, Quality adjustment in the Swedish price index for clothing (PDF file 1000 KB)
Ribe, Current Swedish Discussion on Housing in the CPI (PDF file 586 KB)
Ribe, House prices in a Swedish CPI perspective (Room Document) (PDF file 175KB)
Ribe, Financial Services in Swedish Price Indices (PDF file 227 KB)

Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland (DESTATIS)
Federal Statistical Office
Beuerlein, The German Consumer Price Index for Telecommunication Services: A User Profile Approach for Mobile Telephony and Internet Access (PDF file 126 KB)
Linz, Weighting of Outlets and Regions – the German Weighting System (Room Document) (PDF file 281 KB)

Swiss National Bank (SNB)
Diewert / Huwiler, Kohli, Retrospective Price Indices and Substitution Bias (PDF file 71 KB)

T

The Brookings Institute, USA
Triplett, Should the Cost-of-Living Index Provide the Conceptual Framework for a Consumer Price Index? (PDF file 145 KB)

U

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Hansen, Price updating of weights in the CPI (PDF file 175 KB)
Hansen, Re-calculation of the Danish CPI 1996-2006 (PDF file 91 KB)
Hill, COL Indexes and Inflation Indexes (Room Document) (PDF file 37 KB)

University of British Columbia
Diewert, Discussion of the Smith paper (Room Document) (PDF file 56 KB)
Diewert, Hedonic regressions: a consumer theory approach (PDF file 209 KB)
Diewert, Hedonic Regressions: A Review of Some Unresolved Issues (PDF file 340 KB)
Diewert, Seasonal Commodities, High Inflation and Index Number Theory (PDF file 646 KB)
Diewert, The Consumer Price Index and Index Number Purpose (PDF file 390 KB)
Diewert, The Paris OECD-IMF Workshop on Real Estate Price Indexes: Conclusions and Future Directions (PDF file159 KB)
Diewert, The Ottawa Group after Ten Meetings: Future Priorities (PDF file 79 KB)
Diewert, The Treatment of Owner Occupied Housing and Other Durables in a Consumer Price Index (PDF file 478 KB)
Diewert / Heravi / Silver Hedonic Imputation versus Time Dummy Hedonic Indexes (PDF file 191 KB)
Diewert / Huwiler / Kohli, Retrospective Price Indices and Substitution Bias (PDF file 71 KB)
Gupta, Multi-Dimensional Product Differentiation for Service Bundles (Room document) (PDF file 169 KB)
Ivancic / Fox / Diewert, Scanner Data, Time Aggregation and the Construction of Price Indexes (PDF file 767 KB)

University of Duisburg-Essen

Christian Breuer, Cost of Living Indexes for Germany (PDF file 113 KB)
Mehrhoff / Breuer, Is Inflation Heterogeneously Distributed Among Income Groups? (PDF file 922 KB)
Von Der Lippe, Unit Value Bias Reconsidered (PDF file 211 KB)

University of Florence
Biggeri, Consumer Price Indices: Purposes and definitions, a useful general approach to the construction of the indices and some measures of the divergences between them (PDF file 115 KB)

University of Fribourg
Brachinger / Beer, The Econometric Foundations of Hedonic Elementary Price Indices (Room Document) (PDF file 535 KB)

University of Helsinki
Pursiainen, The algebraic interpretation of consistency in aggregation and quasilinear index numbers (PDF file 413 KB)
Vartia, Beyond matched pairs and Griliches-type hedonic methods for controlling quality changes in CPI sub-indices: Mathematical considerations and empirical examples on the use of linear and non-linear models with time-dependent quality parameters (PDF file 303 KB)

University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Ivancic / Fox / Diewert, Scanner Data, Time Aggregation and the Construction of Price Indexes (PDF file 767 KB)

Uppsala University
Klevmarken, A note on Cost-of-Living Indexes, Subsidized Commodities and Income Dependent Prices (PDF file 648 KB)

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