Definition: Matched products or models method

Category: Purchasing power parities

The pricing of identical products or models across countries to ensure that the price differences observed are not affected by differences in quality. The object is to price to constant quality. Price differences for perfectly matched products are pure price differences. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=KS-RA-12-023&mode=view Eurostat and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), "Eurostat - OECD Methodological manual on purchasing power parities (2005 Edition)", Methods and Nomenclatures, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 2006European Union, Regulation (EC) No 1445/2007 establishing rules for the provision of basic information on PPPs, Official Journal of the European Union No L 336, 20.12.2007, p. 1 - 24