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Pricing Characteristics: An Application of Shephard’s Dual Lemma

In: Pricing Non-marketed Goods using Distance Functions

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  • Rolf Färe
  • Shawna Grosskopf
  • Robin C. Sickles
  • Chenjun Shang

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The following sections are included:IntroductionThe Theoretical ModelData, Empirical Model and Price Index Construction of Housing UnitsEmpirical modelConstruction of the price indexRegression and ResultsGeneral specificationA further comparison with the methods of Diewert and Shimizu (2015)Specification with constant-returns-to-scale assumptionConclusions

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  • Rolf Färe & Shawna Grosskopf & Robin C. Sickles & Chenjun Shang, 2019. "Pricing Characteristics: An Application of Shephard’s Dual Lemma," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Pricing Non-marketed Goods using Distance Functions, chapter 8, pages 63-86, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    Keywords

    Shadow Prices; Distance Functions; Network Pricing; Duality Theory; Production Models;
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    JEL classification:

    • C02 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - General - - - Mathematical Economics
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • C43 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Index Numbers and Aggregation
    • D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
    • R21 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Housing Demand

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