The Hedonic Country Product Dummy Method and Quality Adjustments for Purchasing Power Parity Calculations /

The 2005 International Comparison Program's (ICP) estimates of economy-wide purchasing power parity (PPP) are based on parity estimates for 155 basic expenditure headings, mainly estimated using country product dummy (CPD) regressions. The estimates are potentially inefficient and open to omitt...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Silver, Mick
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/271
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF
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الملخص:The 2005 International Comparison Program's (ICP) estimates of economy-wide purchasing power parity (PPP) are based on parity estimates for 155 basic expenditure headings, mainly estimated using country product dummy (CPD) regressions. The estimates are potentially inefficient and open to omitted variable bias for two reasons. First, they use average prices across outlets as the left-hand-side variable. Second, quality-adjusted prices of non-comparable replacements, required when products in outlets do not match the required specifications, cannot be effectively included. This paper provides an analytical framework based on panel data and hedonic CPD regressions for ameliorating these sources of bias and inefficiency.
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