Quality growth: New evidence from Japanese household-level data

Satoshi Shimizutani

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 114, issue 1, 76-79

Abstract: This article estimates quality Engel curves for 52 durable goods used to measure quality upgrading in the Japanese CPI between 1990 and 2004. The estimation shows that the unmeasured quality growth is averaging less than 0.1% annually.

Keywords: Quality growth; Quality Engel curve; Consumer price index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 E31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.08.028

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