New input requirements violate the fixed inputs assumption of the matched model and may cause biased measures of price change if unaccounted for. However, the price measurement challenge becomes more complex when the inputs, including technology, used to produce product i change between periods o and t.
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This situation is often referred to as the matched model in price index literature (Triplett 1983, 1986, 2003). Weights and choice of index formula are not considered here.Īs long as product i remains unchanged between periods o and t, measures of price change are straightforward. Where p it is the price of product i in period t and p io is the price of product i in some previous base period o. The PPI collects price and product specification data from producers (based on specific sample designs) to measure price change by constructing price relatives that in their most basic form can be expressed as: Equation 2 The following description of price measurement is deliberately generalized and is intended only to provide context for the use of hedonic methods as a quality valuation tool. Before going further, let’s look in a more fundamental way at how the PPI attempts to adjust prices to reflect changes in quality. It is the implicit prices represented by the Β s in equation 1 that provide the PPI with values that may be used in quality adjustments when product characteristics change over time. Β k are the regression/slope coefficients.X i are the variables representing observed product characteristics
P it is the price of the i th model in period t A basic regression formula for a hedonic model could take the form shown in equation 1. The regression may take different functional forms, but in each form the independent variables are “regressed” against the dependent variable yielding implicit prices (regression coefficients) for each of the independent variables.
These product characteristics enter a regression as independent (explanatory) variables and the product’s selling price is entered as the dependent variable. For instance, a computer can be disaggregated into characteristics such as speed of processor, hard drive capacity, amount of memory, and many other defining features that influence the computer’s price. In other words, a product must first be disaggregated into its characteristics. At its most basic, hedonics can be described as a regression designed to isolate and measure the influence on price of economically meaningful product characteristics. 1 One of the most widely recognized pioneers in applied hedonic research was Griliches (1988) who stated that ".one might use regression techniques to relate the prices of different models or versions of a commodity to differences in their characteristics, and discover thereby the relative valuation of such qualities is reasonably obvious.” The terms hedonics or hedonic models are often used by economists when referring to a form of econometrics (Gujarati 1995). The Producer Price Index (PPI) program has developed and adopted several methodologies to respond to these quality measurement challenges, but the primary focus here will be on hedonic methods. Valuing changes in the quality of products or services is one of the oldest measurement challenges facing statistical agencies around the world.
Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index Program June 2011 We suggest that shifting focus from the impact of major life changes on well-being to the impact of seemingly minor repeated behaviors is crucial for understanding how best to improve well-being.Hedonic Models in the Producer Price Index In Study 2, we generalized these effects to other regular activities, demonstrating that people received boosts for exercise and yoga, and that these boosts, too, had a cumulative positive impact on well-being. In Study 1, we surveyed places of worship for 12 religions and found that people did receive positive boosts for attending services and that these boosts appeared to be cumulative: the more they reported attending, the happier they were. We suggest that while major events may not provide lasting increases in well-being, certain seemingly minor events-such as attending religious services or exercising-may do so by providing small but frequent boosts: if people engage in such behaviors with sufficient frequency, they may cumulatively experience enough boosts to attain higher well-being. Many studies have shown that few events in life have a lasting impact on subjective well-being because of people's tendency to adapt quickly worse, those events that do have a lasting impact tend to be negative.
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