PRICE AND PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT: Volume 1 -- Housing. Trafford, 2010
W. Erwin Diewert, Bert M. Balk, Dennis Fixler, Kevin J. Fox and Alice O. Nakamura (editors)

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1. INTRODUCTION TO PRICE AND PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT FOR HOUSING [pdf]    [doc]
Bert M. Balk, W. Erwin Diewert and Alice O Nakamura 1-6

2. ACCOUNTING FOR HOUSING IN A CPI [pdf]   [doc]
W. Erwin Diewert and Alice O. Nakamura 7-32

3. ESTIMATING DWELLING SERVICES IN THE CANDIDATE COUNTRIES:
THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN DEVELOPING METHODOLOGIES BASED ON A USER COST OF CAPITAL MEASURE [pdf]  [doc]
Arnold J. Katz 33-50

4. HEDONIC ESTIMATES OF THE COST OF HOUSING SERVICES:
RENTAL AND OWNER OCCUPIED UNITS [pdf]   [doc]
Theodore M. Crone, Leonard I. Nakamura and Richard P. Voith 51-68

5. A RENTAL EQUIVALENCE INDEX FOR OWNER OCCUPIED HOUSING
IN WEST GERMANY [pdf]   [doc]
Claudia Kurz and Johannes Hoffmann 69-86

6. THE PARIS OECD-IMF WORKSHOP ON REAL ESTATE PRICE INDEXES: CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS [pdf]   [doc]
W. Erwin Diewert 87-116

7. REPORTED PRICES AND RENTS OF HOUSING: REFLECTIONS OF COSTS, AMENITIES OR BOTH? [pdf]   [doc]
Alan Heston and Alice O. Nakamura 117-124

8. THE PUZZLING DIVERGENCE OF RENTS AND USER COSTS, 1980-2004: SUMMARY AND EXTENSIONS [pdf]   [doc]
Thesia I. Garner and Randal Verbrugge 125-146

9. OWNER OCCUPIED HOUSING IN THE ICELANDIC CPI [pdf]    [doc]
Rósmundur Gudnason and Gudrún R. Jónsdóttir 147-150

10. OWNER OCCUPIED HOUSING IN THE CPI: THE STATISTICS CANADA ANALYTICAL SERIES [pdf]    [doc]
Andrew Baldwin, Alice O. Nakamura and Marc Prud'homme 151-160