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Price Indexes (General)

• A Reconciliation between the Consumer Price Index and the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index
• The Role of Hedonic Methods in Measuring Real GDP in the United States
• Terms of Trade Effects: Theory and Measurement

IT Goods

Working Papers

• Moore’s Law, Competition and Intel’s Productivity in the Mid-1990s
• Why Are Semiconductor Price Indexes Falling So Fast? Industry Estimates and Implications for Productivity Measurement
• Differences in Hedonic and Matched-Model Price Indexes: Do the Weights Matter?

Durable Goods

Working Papers

• Intermittent Purchases and Welfare-Based Price Deflators for Durable Goods

Regional Price Parities

Working Papers

• How can the American Community Survey (ACS) be used to improve the imputation of Owner-Occupied Rent Expenditures?
• Estimating the Price of Rents in Regional Price Parties
• Notes on Estimating the Multi-Year Regional Price Parities by 16 Expenditure Categories: 2005-2009
  • Tables (XLS)
• Comparing the Consistency of Price Parities of Regions of the U.S. in an Economic Framework Approach
• Estimates of State and Metropolitan Price Parities for Consumption Goods and Services in the United States, 2005
• Estimates of State Price Levels for Consumption Goods and Services: a first brush
• Report on Interarea Price Levels

SCB Articles

• Regional Price Parities for States and Metropolitan Areas, 2006-2010 (PDF)
  • Tables (XLS)
• Regional Price Parities by Expenditure Class, 2005-2009
• Regional Price Parities Comparing Price Level Differences Across Geographic Areas

Health Care

Working Papers

• The Importance of Pricing the Bundle of Treatments

SCB Articles

• Toward a Health Care Satellite Account
• Research Spotlight: A New Approach to Price Measures for Health Care

R&D

Working Papers

• Measuring the Price of Research and Development Output

Real Estate

Working Papers

• Private Nonresidential Building and Apartment Prices
• Another Look at Nonresidential Building Prices