Author/Editor: W E Diewert, Mick Silver, Saeed Heravi.

Release Date:October, 2007

Statistical offices try to match item models when measuring inflation between two periods. However, for product areas with a high turnover of differentiated models, the use of hedonic indexes is more more...

Author/Editor: Mick Silver, Saeed Heravi.

Release Date:July, 2006

The Consumer Price Index Manual (2004) provides guidelines for aggregation formulas that are promulgated at IMF training courses and technical assistance missions. This paper develops elementary more...

Author/Editor: Saeed Heravi, Mick Silver.

Release Date:July, 2006

Statistical offices try to match item models when measuring inflation between two periods. For product areas with a high turnover of differentiated models, however, the use of hedonic indexes is more more...