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1、25IamgladthatItalkedyouintodoingaseparatepaperratherthandoingajointonewithme;Ithinkthatyouhavedevelopedalotofnewveryusefulmaterial,whichnicelycomplementsthematerialthatIdeveloped.Goodstuff!THECOUNTRY-PRODUCT-DUMMYMETHOD:ASTOCHASTICAPPROACHTOTHECOMPUTATIONOFP
2、URCHASINGPOWERPARITIESINTHEICPD.S.PrasadaRaoSchoolofEconomicsUniversityofQueenslandBrisbane,AustraliaEmail:p.rao@economics.uq.edu.auSeptember16June25,2004ApaperforpresentationattheSSHRCConferenceonIndexNumbersandProductivityMeasurementtobeheldduring30June–3J
3、uly,2004inVancouver.TheauthorwishestothankBettinaAten,ErwinDiewert,AlanHeston,ChrisO’DonnellandMarcelTimmerforhelpfuldiscussionsonthesubjectmatterofthispaper.25TheCountry-Product-DummyMethod:AStochasticApproachtotheComputationofPurchasingPowerParitiesintheIC
4、PD.S.PrasadaRaoAbstractTheCountry-Product-Dummy(CPD)methodisaregression-basedmethodforcomputingspatialpriceindexnumbersandpurchasingpowerparities(PPPs)withintheInternationalComparisonProgram(ICP).Itisessentiallyahedonicregressionmodelwheretheobservedpriceisr
5、elatedtothecountryoforiginandthecharacteristicsoftheproductarerepresentedbythecommodityitself.ThepaperdescribestheunweightedandweightedCPDmethodanddiscussesanumberofinterestingpropertiesofthemethodandarguesthattheCPDmethodprovidesaviablealternativetothestand
6、ardindexnumberformulaeusedininternationalcomparisons.AmajoradvantageoftheCPDmethodisthatitallowstheuseofabatteryofpowerfuleconometrictechniquesthancanbeusedinhandlingdatarelatedproblemsincludingmissingpricedataandalsoincomputingstandarderrorsassociatedwithPP
7、Psobtained.JELClassification:E31andC19Keywords:PurchasingPowerParities,InternationalPrices,Country-Product-Dummymethod,standarderrors1.IntroductionThereisagreatrangeofmethodsavailableforpurposesofaggregatingpricedataincomputingpurchasingpowerparities(PPPs)of
8、currencies.PPPsareessentiallyspatialpriceindexnumbersthatprovidemeasuresofpriceleveldifferencesacrosscountriesorregionswithinacountry.TheCountryProductDummy(CPD)methodrepresentsasimpleregression
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