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Introduction to Price and Productivity Measurement for Housing

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Balk, Bert M.
Diewert, Erwin
Nakamura, Alice O.

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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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Paper provided by UBC Department of Economics in its series UBC Departmental Archives with number erwin_diewert-2009-18.

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Date of creation: 05 Mar 2009
Date of revision: 12 Mar 2009
Handle: RePEc:ubc:bricol:erwin_diewert-2009-18

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Keywords: Durable goods; Consumer Price Index; Cost of Living Index; Owner Occupied Housing; depreciation; hedonic regression models; rental equivalence approac;

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D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation

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