Index Numbers: Essays in Honour of Sten Malmquist /
Professor Sten Malmquist constructed the Malmquist quantity index and in doing so developed a distance function defined on a consumption space. This function is the consumer analog to the Shephard input distance function of producers and is used in ratio form to define the quantity index. This volum...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
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1998.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Professor Sten Malmquist constructed the Malmquist quantity index and in doing so developed a distance function defined on a consumption space. This function is the consumer analog to the Shephard input distance function of producers and is used in ratio form to define the quantity index. This volume contains new contributions based on Malmquist's work nearly 50 years ago and provides modern perspectives on the value of this research. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 283 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789401148580 (electronic bk.) 9401148589 (electronic bk.) |