Measuring consumption growth: the impact of new and better products

Pete Klenow

Quarterly Review, 2003, vol. 27, issue Win, 10-23

Abstract: This study describes how the U.S. government measures real consumption growth and how it tries to take account of a complicating factor: that the goods and services offered to consumers change over time; new products are introduced and old products are improved. The 1996 Boskin Commission critique of this government methodology is described, along with the changes made in response to that critique. Also described is recent research related to how real consumption growth should be measured in the presence of new and better products.

Keywords: Consumption; (Economics) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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