Computers

a cross-section from 1993 to 1995 number of observations : 6259 observation : goods country : United States

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Spencer Graves

Ecdat

Data Sets for Econometrics

Computers function

A dataframe containing :
 <dl>
 <dt>price</dt><dd>price in US dollars of 486 PCs</dd> <dt>speed</dt><dd>clock speed in MHz</dd> <dt>hd</dt><dd>size of hard drive in MB</dd> <dt>ram</dt><dd>size of Ram in in MB</dd> <dt>screen</dt><dd>size of screen in inches </dd> <dt>cd</dt><dd>is a CD-ROM present ?</dd> <dt>multi</dt><dd>is a multimedia kit (speakers, sound card) included ?</dd> <dt>premium</dt><dd>is the manufacturer was a "premium" firm (IBM, COMPAQ) ?</dd> <dt>ads</dt><dd>number of 486 price listings for each month</dd> <dt>trend</dt><dd>time trend indicating month starting from January of 1993 to November of 1995.</dd> </dl>

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Stengos, T. and E. Zacharias (2005) &#147;Intertemporal pricing and price discrimination : a semiparametric hedonic analysis of the personal computer market&#148;, Journal of Applied Econometrics, forthcoming.

Source

a cross-section from 1993 to 1995

 number of observations : 6259

 observation : goods

 country : United States

Computers: Prices of Personal Computers

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