A Century of Housing Shelter Prices: Is There a Downward Bias in the CPI?
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- C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
- E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
- L74 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction - - - Construction
- N12 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
- N62 - Economic History - - Manufacturing and Construction - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2005-12-01 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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