Brent R. Moulton, Karin E. Moses, Robert J. Gordon, Barry P. Bosworth, Addressing the Quality Change Issue in the Consumer Price Index, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Vol. 1997, No. 1 (1997), pp. 305-366
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