Greenlees, John Shearer; McClelland, Robert - 2008
we provide new and detailed evidence on the impact on the U.S. CPI of the
appearance and growth of new types of product … outlets. Using actual CPI microdata for
2002-2007, we find that the changing mix of outlets had a statistically … to that used in the CPI yields indexes that differ to a surprising
extent from our baseline hedonic indexes, which also …