Price level measurement /

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""...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Diewert, W. E. (W. Erwin)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland, 1990.
Series:Contributions to economic analysis ; 196.
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Table of 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.