Property Price Index

W. Erwin Diewert is a Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. Kiyohiko G. Nishimura is a Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) and Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Project Research Fellow of the Center for Advanced Research in Finance at the University of Tokyo. Chihiro Shimizu is a senior fellow professor of the Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo, and Professor of Nihon University. Tsutomu Watanabe is a Professor in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo.

• Part 1 Index Theory for Property Price Indexes.- Chapter 1 International Policy Discussion in Property Price Indices.- Chapter 2 Theoretical Background of Hedonic Measure and Repeat Sales Measure.- Part 2 Empirical Studies for RPPI using Tokyo Data.- Chapter 3 A Comparison of Alternative Approaches to Measuring House Price Inflation.-  Chapter 4 Estimation of Property Price Index: Methodology and Data Sources.-  Chapter 5 The SNA and Alternative Approaches to the Construction of CPPI.- Part 3. Application to the Official Statistics or Public Policy using RPPI.- Chapter 6 Measuring the Services of Durables and Owner Occupied Housing.- Chapter 7 New Estimates for the Price of Housing in the Japanese CPI.- Chapter 8 Imputed Rent for OOH in National Account.- Index.