Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Editor’s Preface ix
5. 1. Introduction: Hedonic Price Indexes Revisited 3
6. 2. Taste and Quality Change in the Pure Theory of the True Cost-of-Living Index 16
7. 3. Hedonic Price Indexes for Automobiles: An Econometric Analysis of Quality Change 55
8. 4. Price and Quality Changes in Consumer Capital Goods: An Empirical Study 88
9. 5. International Price Comparisons by Regression Methods 150
10. 6. Quality Bias in Price Indexes and New Methods of Quality Measurement 180
11. 7. Measuring Quality Changes and the Purchasing Power of Money: An Exploratory Study of Automobiles 215
12. 8. The Measurement of Quality Change from Vintage Price Data 240
13. Bibliography and Index
14. Bibliography 275
15. Index 283