Introduction to Price and Productivity Measurement for Housing

This paper provides a brief introduction to a proposed new opportunity cost treatment of owner occupied housing in measures of inflation for the United States. In addition, the paper introduces, and provides links to, a collection of nine other papers that discuss various aspects of the treatment of owner occupied housing in measures of inflation for a number of nations including Canada, Germany, Iceland and the United States.

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Year of publication:	2009-03-05
Authors:	Balk, Bert M. ; Diewert, Erwin ; Nakamura, Alice O.
Institutions:	Vancouver School of Economics
Subject:	Durable goods \| Consumer Price Index \| Cost of Living Index \| Owner Occupied Housing \| depreciation \| hedonic regression models \| rental equivalence approac

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Economics working papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	7 pages
Classification:	C23 - Models with Panel Data ; C43 - Index Numbers and Aggregation ; C81 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data ; D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis ; E31 - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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