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Price level measurement
Title:
Price level measurement
Author:
Diewert, W. E. (W. Erwin)
ISBN:
9781483295848
9781322471846
Publication Information:
Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland, 1990.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vii, 377 pages) : illustrations.
Series:
Contributions to economic analysis ; 196
Contributions to economic analysis ; 196.
Contents:
An overview of the papers on price level measurement / W.E. Diewert -- The theory of the cost-of-living index and the measurement of welfare change / W.E. Diewer. Comments / R. Robert Russell -- Individual and social cost-of-living indexes / Dale W. Jorgenson and Daniel T. Slesnick. Comments / R. Robert Russell -- Leisure time and the measurement of economic welfare / W. Craig Riddell. Comments / John Bossons -- Preference diversity and aggregate economic cost-of-living indexes / Charles Blackorby and David Donaldson -- Axiomatic foundation of price indexes and purchasing power parities / Wolfgang Eichhorn and Joachim Voeller. Comments / Charles Blackorby.
Abstract:
Among the theoretical issues covered in this volume are the ""economic"" and the ""axiomatic"" or ""test"" approaches to the problem of constructing and choosing among alternative cost-of-living index formulas; ""bounds"" and ""econometric"" alternatives for developing empirically computable approximations of theoretically desirable indexes; recommendations concerning the incorporation of leisure time in measures of the cost-of-living; and the formulation of social and group cost-of-living indexes. The Jorgenson-Slesnick paper also presents a far-reaching empirical study of price changes in th.
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ScienceDirect http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444881083Available:*
Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Shelf Location | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB221 .P72 1990 | 1181444-1001 | Elsevier E-Book Collections | Searching... |
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