Price and Quantity Index Numbers - Models for Measuring Aggregate Change and Difference

Klappentext This book is the first comprehensive text on index number theory since Irving Fisher's 1922 The Making of Index Numbers. Zusammenfassung The first comprehensive text on index number theory since Irving Fisher's 1922 The Making of Index Numbers. This book covers intertemporal and interspatial comparisons; ratio- and difference-type measures; discrete and continuous time environments; and upper- and lower-level indices. Guided by economic insights! this book develops the instrumental or axiomatic approach. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Price indices through history; 2. The quest for international comparisons; 3. Axioms, tests, and indices; 4. Decompositions and subperiods; 5. Price indices for elementary aggregates; 6. Divisia and Montgomery indices; 7. International comparisons: transitivity and additivity.

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• Authors: Bert M. Balk, Bert M. (Senior Researcher and Professor) Balk, BALK BERT M, Balk Bert M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2012
• EAN: 9781107404960
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40496-0
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Econometrics, Economic statistics, Probability & statistics, Econometrics, Econometrics and economic statistics