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Prices of Personal Computers
Description
a cross-section from 1993 to 1995
number of observations : 6259
observation : goods
country : United States
Usage
data(Computers)Format
A dataframe containing :
- price
price in US dollars of 486 PCs
- speed
clock speed in MHz
- hd
size of hard drive in MB
- ram
size of Ram in in MB
- screen
size of screen in inches
- cd
is a CD-ROM present ?
- multi
is a multimedia kit (speakers, sound card) included ?
- premium
is the manufacturer was a "premium" firm (IBM, COMPAQ) ?
- ads
number of 486 price listings for each month
- trend
time trend indicating month starting from January of 1993 to November of 1995.
Source
Stengos, T. and E. Zacharias (2005) “Intertemporal pricing and price discrimination : a semiparametric hedonic analysis of the personal computer market”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, forthcoming.
References
Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/.
See Also
Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations