Sixth meeting hosted by Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra, 2 - 6 April, 2001
Report of the meeting
Session 1 - Quality adjustment and scanner data
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Timo Koskimäki, Yrjö 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
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Eunjeong Lee -
How to Reflect Quality Change in the CPI: The Case of Korea
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Ben Bode, Jan van Dalen -
Quality-corrected price indexes of new passenger cars in the Netherlands, 1990-1999
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Masato Okamoto, Tomohiko Satou -
Comparison of Hedonic Method and Matched Models Using Scanner Data: The Case of PCs, TVs, and Digital Cameras
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Mick Silver, Saeed Heravi -
Quality Adjustment, Sample Rotation and CPI practice: An Experiment
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David Fenwick, Adrian Ball, Peter Morgan, Mick Silver -
Sampling in Consumer Price Indices: what role for scanner data?
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David H. Richardson -
Scanner Indexes for the CPI
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Don Sellwood -
Improving Quality Adjustment in Practice
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Erwin Diewert -
Hedonic regressions: a consumer theory approach
paperpresentation
Room documents
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Malti Jain, Joanne Caddy -
Using scanner data to explore unit value indexes
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Malti Jain, Ruel Abello -
Construction of Price Indexes and Exploration of Biases Using Scanner Data
paperpresentation
Session 2 - New and disappearing goods
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Eddy Opperdoes -
Some Empiricial Experiments with CES Functions
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Jan de Haan -
Generalised Fisher Price Indexes and the Use of Scanner Data in the CPI
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Walter Lane -
Addressing the New Goods Problem in the Consumer Price Index
paperpresentation
Session 3 - Financial services
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Dennis Fixler, Kimberly D. Zieschang -
Price Indices for Financial Services
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Keith Woolford -
Financial Services in the Consumer Price Index
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Stephen Frost -
The construction of price indexes for deposit and loan facilities
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics -
Direct Pricing of Health Insurance in the Consumer Price Index
paperpresentation
Session 5 - Miscellaneous areas of new or ongoing research
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Jörgen Dalén -
Statistical targets for price indexes in dynamic universes
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Masato Okamoto -
Midpoint-year Basket Index as a Practical Approximation to Superlative Index
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Bohdan Schultz -
User-cost Approach to the Estimation of Price Change for Private Transportation, Experimental study in the spirit of the Cost-of-Living Index
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Paul Haschka -
Market Liberalisation in the Austrian CPI/HICP
paperpresentation
Session 6 - Telecommunication services
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Prapa Puntumeka, Aree Orapin -
Mobile Phone Services in Thailand Consumer Price Index
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Yoel Finkel, Merav Oren -
Price Indices for Telecommunication Services in the Israeli CPI
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Dennis Fixler, John S. Greenlees, Walter F. Lane -
Telecommunications Indexes in the U.S. Consumer Price Index
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Thierry Lacroix, François Magnien -
Methodology for constructing a price index for mobile-telephony services
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Kam Yu -
Trends in Internet Access Prices in Canada
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Monica Montella, Franco Mostacci, Gualtiero Zanolini -
Consumer Price Indexes for Telecommunication Services in Italy: Work in Progress
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Rosmundur Guðnason -
Telecommunications services in the CPI - a quantity approach
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Irmtraud Beuerlein -
The German Consumer Price Index for Telecommunication Services: A User Profile Approach for Mobile Telephony and Internet Access
paperpresentation
Room documents
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Sophie Vassiliou -
Consumer price indexes for telecommunication services based on a sample of customer bills: Summary of progress
paperpresentation
Session 7 - Other issues