PRICE AND
PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT: Volume 6 -- Index Number Theory
Trafford, 2010
W. Erwin Diewert, Bert M. Balk, Dennis Fixler, Kevin J. Fox and Alice O.
Nakamura (editors)
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1.
INTRODUCTION TO INDEX NUMBER THEORY FOR PRICE AND PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT [pdf]
[doc]
Bert M. Balk, W. Erwin Diewert and Alice O Nakamura 1-10
Part I: Productivity Measures and Decompositions
2. MEASURING
MULTI-FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY WHEN RATES OF RETURN ARE EXOGENOUS [pdf]
[doc]
Paul Schreyer 13-40
3.
ON MEASURING THE CONTRIBUTION OF ENTERING AND EXITING FIRMS TO AGGREGATE
PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH [pdf]
[doc]
W. Erwin Diewert and Kevin J. Fox 41-66
4.
ON THE TANG AND WANG DECOMPOSITION OF LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH INTO SECTORAL
EFFECTS [pdf]
[doc]
W. Erwin Diewert 67-76
5.
EXACT INDUSTRY CONTRIBUTIONS TO LABOR PRODUCTIVITY CHANGE [pdf]
[doc]
Marshall Reinsdorf and Robert Yuskavage 77-102
6.
LABOR PRODUCTIVITY: AVERAGE VS. MARGINAL [pdf]
[doc]
[tables]
Ulrich Kohli 103-132
7.
MEASURING PRODUCTIVITY CHANGE WITHOUT NEOCLASSICAL ASSUMPTIONS: A CONCEPTUAL
ANALYSIS [pdf]
[doc]
Bert M. Balk 133-184
Part II: Index Number Formulas
8.
THE LOWE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX AND ITS SUBSTITUTION BIAS [pdf]
[doc]
Bert M. Balk and W. Erwin Diewert 187-196
9.
LOWE INDICES [pdf]
[doc]
T. Peter Hill 197-216
10.
DIRECT AND CHAINED INDICES: A REVIEW OF TWO PARADIGMS [pdf]
[doc]
Bert M. Balk 217-234
11.
ON THE STOCHASTIC APPROACH TO INDEX NUMBERS [pdf]
[doc]
W. Erwin Diewert 235-262
12.
ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO INDEX NUMBER THEORY [pdf]
[doc]
W. Erwin Diewert and Robert J. Hill 263-278
13.
CHAIN AND VOLUME AGGREGATES FOR THE NATIONAL ACCOUNTS [pdf]
[doc]
Andrew Baldwin 279-316
14.
INEXACT INDEX NUMBERS AND ECONOMIC MONOTONICITY VIOLATIONS: THE GDP IMPLICIT
PRICE DEFLATOR [pdf]
[doc]
Ulrich Kohli 317-328
15.
ECONOMIC MONOTONICITY OF PRICE INDEX FORMULAS [pdf]
[doc]
Ludwig von Auer 329-332
16.
AXIOMATIC AND ECONOMIC APPROACHES TO ELEMENTARY PRICE INDEXES [pdf]
[doc]
W. Erwin Diewert 333-360
