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Constructing a Quality‐Adjusted Price Index for a Heterogeneous Oligopoly
Author(s) -
Prentice David,
Yin Xiangkang
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
the manchester school
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.361
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1467-9957
pISSN - 1463-6786
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9957.2004.00401.x
Subject(s) - hedonic index , oligopoly , economics , econometrics , monopolistic competition , imputation (statistics) , index (typography) , quality (philosophy) , price index , hedonic regression , microeconomics , regression analysis , regression , statistics , computer science , mathematics , missing data , monopoly , philosophy , epistemology , cournot competition , world wide web
Both the theory and practice of using hedonic regressions to remove quality effects in price indexes are implicitly developed for monopolistic competitive markets. In this paper, we theoretically and practically analyse the application of a standard hedonic regression for an oligopoly. In the theoretical work, we recast how for an oligopoly the standard hedonic regression may be unstable. Then in the empirical work, we recommend using the weighted imputation method for constructing an index and estimating separate hedonic regressions for market segments. We apply these recommendations to estimating a quality‐adjusted price index for the Australian passenger vehicle market and find they make a substantial difference.