Price level measurement

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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 inde…

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Full title :Price level measurement / edited by W.E. Diewert.

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Publication Date:1990.

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Publisher(s):North-Holland
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:1990.

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Description:1 online resource (vii, 377 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:9781483295848, 1483295842, 9781322471846, 1322471843
oclc:ocn654399901
LC Classification:HB221
Dewey Decimal:338.5/28

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.