Ana M Aizcorbe

Practical Guide to Price Index and Hedonic Techniques

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An accessible text introducing methods that are used to measure price trends for specific industries or goods. The focus is on price index and hedonic techniques, the two methods most widely used by researchers and industry practitioners.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780198702429
• ISBN-10: 0198702426
• Artikelnr.: 45435500

Autorenporträt

Ana M. Aizcorbe is a Research Professor at the Social and Decision Analytics Laboratory (SDAL) at the Virginia Bioinformatics Laboratory at Virginia Tech. Her research interests focus on the measurement of economic growth and productivity, with an emphasis on identifying novel data sources that could be used to improve existing measures. Prior to joining SDAL, she was the Chief Economist of the Bureau of Economic Analysis where she led a project to improve output and productivity measures for the health sector using large databases containing health insurance claims. Dr Aizcorbe has also been a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Board and a research economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics Her publications in the health field include studies published in the Journal of Health Economics and Health Affairs. She is the coeditor of Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs (University of Chicago Press). She received her Ph.D. in economics from Boston College.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Price Indexes
3: Hedonic Methods
4: Defining the Good and Data Issues
5: Conclusions
Data Sources
Bibliography of Empirical Price Measurement Studies by Industry
Bibliography