Introduction: what are the issues? / W. Erwin Diewert, John Greenlees, and Charles Hulten -- A review of reviews: ninety years of professional thinking about the consumer price index / Marshall Reinsdorf and Jack E. Triplett -- Apparel prices 1914-93 and the Hulten/Bruegel paradox / Robert J. Gordon -- Re-assessing the U.S. quality adjustment to computer prices: the role of durability and changing software / Robert C. Feenstra and Christopher R. Knittel -- Hedonic imputation versus time dummy hedonic indexes / W. Erwin Diewert, Saeed Heravi, and Mick Silver -- Comment: Jan de Haan -- Reply by W. Erwin Diewert, Saeed Heravi and Mick Silver -- CPI bias from supercenters: does the BLS know that Wal-Mart exists? / Jerry Hausman and Ephraim Leibtag -- Comment: Marshall Reinsdorf -- Comment: Mick Silver -- Incorporating financial services in a consumer price index / Dennis Fixler -- Comment: Susanto Basu -- A general-equilibrium asset-pricing approach to the measurement of nominal and real bank output / J. Christina Wang, Susanto Basu, and John G. Fernald -- Comment: Paul Schreyer -- Can a disease-based price index improve the estimation of the medical CPI? / Xue Song, William D. Marder, Robert Houchens, Jonathan E. Conklin, and Ralph Bradley -- Comment: Ernst R. Berndt -- Price and real output measures for the education function of government exploratory estimates for primary and secondary education / Barbara M. Fraumeni, Marshall Reinsdorf, Brooks B. Robinson, and Matthew P. Williams -- Measuring the output and prices of the lottery sector: an application of implicit expected utility theory / Kam Yu -- Comment: Alan G. White -- Consumption of own production and cost of living indices / Peter Hill -- Durables and owner occupied housing in a consumer price index / W. Erwin Diewert -- Comment: Alan Heston.