Introduction to Price and Productivity Measurement for Housing

Bert M. Balk, Walter Erwin Diewert () and Alice O. Nakamura ()

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Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Durable goods; Consumer Price Index; Cost of Living Index; Owner Occupied Housing; depreciation; hedonic regression models; rental equivalence approac (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 C43 C81 D12 E31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009-03-05, Revised 2009-03-12

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