CPI Bias from Supercenters: Does the BLS Know that Wal-Mart Exists?

Jerry Hausman & Ephraim Leibtag
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Copyright 2009
ISBN 978-0-226-14855-7
Price Index Concepts and Measurement
Book: Price Index Concepts and Measurement
Book editors: W. Erwin Diewert, John S. Greenlees & Charles R. Hulten
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
Series: Studies in Income and Wealth
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Hausman (2003) discusses four sources of bias in the present calculation of the CPI. A pure price' index based...

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