macroeconomics, consumption, consumer price index, quality change, CPI bias, retail, substitution bias

Brent R. Moulton

Karin E. Moses

English

Research Papers in Economics

A Comparison of Estimators for Elementary Aggregates of the CPI.&quot; Unpublished paper.

Adjusting Apparel Indexes in the Consumer Price Index for Quality Differences.&quot; In Price Measurements and Their Uses, edited by

Adjustments for Quality Change in the U.S. Consumer Price Index.'&quot;

Apparel Price Indexes: Effects of Hedonic Adjustment.&quot;

Are Medical Prices Declining?&quot; Working Paper 5750.

Auditing the Producer Price Index: Micro Evidence from Prescription Pharmaceutical Preparations.&quot;

Bias in the Consumer Price Index: What Is the Evidence?&quot;

Cellular Telephone, New Products, and the CPI.&quot; Unpublished paper.

Comment on CPI Biases.&quot;

Committee on Finance.

Department of Agriculture.

Econometric Estimates of Price Indexes for Personal Computers in the 1990's.&quot;

Fact and Fancy: CPI Biases and the Federal Budget.&quot;

Generics and New Goods in Pharmaceutical Price Indexes.&quot;

Hedonic Methods in Statistical Agency Environments: An Intellectual Biopsy.&quot;

Hedonic Price Indexes for Automobiles: An Econometric Analysis of Quality Change.&quot;

Introduction: Hedonic Price Indexes Revisited.&quot; In Price Indexes and Quality Change: Studies in New Methods of Measurement, edited by Zvi Griliches.

Is the Growth of the CPI a Biased Measure of Changes in the Cost of Living?&quot;

Issues in Measuring Price Changes for Rent of Shelter.&quot;

Measuring Consumption: The Post-1973 Slowdown and the Research Issues.&quot; Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review (forthcoming).

Mismeasurement in the Consumer Price Index: An Evaluation.&quot;

Monetary Policy and 'The Price Level.' &quot; Unpublished paper.

New Products and the U.S. CPI.'&quot;

New Ways of Handling Quality Change in the U.S. Consumer Price Index.&quot; Working Paper 276.

Quality Adjustment in the CPI and Methods to Improve It.&quot;

Quality Bias in Price Indexes and New Methods of Quality Measurement.&quot; In Price Indexes and Quality Change: Studies in New Methods of Measurement, edited by Zvi Griliches.

Quality Change in the CPI.&quot; Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review (forthcoming).

Quality-Adjusted Price Indexes for Computer Processors and Selected Peripheral Equipment.&quot;

Testimony before the Senate Finance Committee.'&quot;

Testimony before the Senate Finance Committee.&quot;

The Consumer Price Index.&quot; Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Economic Review (2d quarter):

The CPI Commission: Discussion.&quot;

The Measurement of Durable Goods Prices.

The Overstated CPI Can It Really Be True?&quot; Challenge (September-October):

The Sears Catalog Revisited: Apparel and Durable Goods.&quot; Unpublished paper.

The Treatment of Seasonality in a Cost of Living Index.&quot; In Price Level Measurement:

The Valuation of the Social Income.&quot;

Vegetables and Specialties: Situation and Outlook Yearbook. VGS-269. Department of Agriculture,

Addressing the Quality Change Issue in the Consumer Price Index

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Addressing the Quality Change Issue in the Consumer Price Index

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