Scanner Data and Price Indexes

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Prefatory Note
Introduction - Robert C. Feenstra and Matthew D. Shapiro
I. Scanner Data in Official Statistics: Advancing the State of the Art
1. Using Scanner Data to Improve the Quality of Measurement in the Consumer Price Index
William J. Hawkes and Frank W. Piotrowski
2. Scanner Indexes for the Consumer Price Index
David H. Richardson
3. Price Collection and Quality Assurance of Item Sampling in the Retail Prices Index: How Can Scanner Data Help?
David Fenwick, Adrian Ball, Peter Morgan, and Mick Silver
4. Estimating Price Movements for Consumer Durables Using Electronic Retail Transactions Data
Robin Lowe and Candace Ruscher
Roundtable Discussion - Dennis Fixler, John S. Greenlees, David Fenwick, Robin Lowe, and Mick Silver
II. Aggregation across Time
5. High-Frequency Substitution and the Measurement of Price Indexes
Robert C. Feenstra and Matthew D. Shapiro
Comment: Marshall B. Reinsdorf
6. Using Scanner Data in Consumer Price Indexes: Some Neglected Conceptual Considerations
Jack E. Triplett
III. Using Price Data to Study Market Structure
7. What Can the Price Gap between Branded and Private-Label Products Tell Us about Markups?
Robert Barsky, Mark Bergen, Shantanu Dutta, and Daniel Levy
Comment: Julio Rotemberg
8. The Long Shadow of Patent Expiration: Generic Entry and Rx-to-OTC Switches
Ernst R. Berndt, Margaret K. Kyle, and Davina C. Ling
Comment: Steve Morgan
IV. Measuring Change in Quality and Imputing Missing Observations
9. The Measurement of Quality-Adjusted Price Changes
Mick Silver and Saeed Heravi
10. Hedonic Regressions: A Consumer Theory Approach
Erwin Diewert
11. Price Index Estimation Using Price Imputation for Unsold Items
Ralph Bradley
Comment: Eduardo Ley
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index