Author: Irving B. KravisPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9780801823602
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
World Product and Income
Author: Irving B. KravisPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9780801823602
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices
Author: Alan HestonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226331121
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Economists wish to compare prices, real income, and output across countries and regions for many purposes. In the past, such comparisons were made in nominal terms, or by using exchange rates across countries, ignoring differences in price levels and thus distorting the results. Great progress has been made in interspatial comparisons in the past thirty years, but descriptions and discussions of the new measures have been scattered in unpublished or inaccessible papers. International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices includes discussions of developments in the United Nations International Comparison Program, the largest effort in this field, and in the ICOP program on the production side, including efforts in both to extend the comparisons to the formerly planned economies. Other papers in this volume explore new programs on interspatial comparisons within the United States. There are also theoretical papers on how interspatial comparisons should be made and several examples of uses of such comparisons.
International Comparisons of Prices, Output and Productivity
Author: J. Salazar-CarrilloPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0444597719
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The present volume provides a timely collection of material on the subject of international comparisons, contributed by leading scholars from an extensive range of relevant disciplines and geographical backgrounds. The papers in this volume have been classified into two broad groups united by overlapping themes. Part I includes essentially empirical papers intended to provide a clear picture of the different types of international comparisons that have been undertaken by various organizations and individuals. The papers relate to empirical studies of different sectoral and national income aggregates at both regional and global levels. The papers in Part II deal with methodological and analytical issues. Discussion of the appropriateness of various aggregation methods for international comparisons accounts for a major component of this section. The volume provides a set of stimulating studies on international comparisons of prices, output and productivity, and will provide a useful reference source for many interested readers around the world.
Comparisons of Prices and Real Products in Latin America
Author: J. Salazar-CarrilloPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483294587
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Contained in this book are studies related to the computation of purchasing power parities for comparing real income and product among Latin American countries. The principal components of income and product comparisons are discussed: from designing and executing benchmark studies, to extrapolating results for non-benchmark years. Different comparative methods and measurement techniques, including index number formulations, are considered. Comparisons of Latin countries with other countries are also undertaken.This volume aims to illuminate the thorny theoretical and methodological issues involved in regional comparisons, and to facilitate the practical application of the comparative approach to the many sided policy problems generated by a rapidly integrating international economy.
Price and Quantity Index Numbers
Author: Bert M. BalkPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107404967
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive text on index number theory since Irving Fisher's 1922 The Making of Index Numbers. The 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.
Measuring the Real Size of the World Economy
Author: World BankPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821397311
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 697
Book Description
This volume provides a comprehensive review of the statistical theory and methods underlying the estimation of purchasing power parities (PPPs) and real expenditures, the choices made for the 2005 International Comparison Program (ICP) round, and the lessons learned that led to improvements in the 2011 ICP.
Staff Studies for the World Economic Outlook, December 1993
Author: International Monetary FundPublisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 9781557753373
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
This paper focuses on the private nonfinancial sectors of the affected economies, financial liberalization provided households and businesses with greater access to credit markets. This contributed to the long period of expansion during the 1980s. Partly as a result of major changes to the financial systems, several industrial countries had a boom in asset markets associated with a period of asset accumulation, an unprecedented buildup of debt, a sharp increase in relative asset prices, and related increases in household wealth. The expansion in household financial activity in the United Kingdom during the 1980s was paralleled by a sizable boom in investment spending and an increase in corporate debt. The structure of balance sheets was also affected by mergers and acquisitions that led to a further expansion in corporate debt. New types of bank loans and accounts have prevented even greater disintermediation but have also reduced net interest margins because more deposits now earn market-related rates of return.
BLS Handbook of Methods
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consumer price indexes
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
CIR Staff Paper
Author: Price Indexes in Time and Space
Author: Luigi BiggeriPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3790821403
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
This book deals with many of the most relevant topics in price index numbers theory and practice. The problem of the harmonization of CPIs and the time-space integration of baskets is analyzed at the Eu-zone level, with methodological and actual proposals on how to proceed for an overall treatment of the matte. Likewise, the construction of sub-indexes for households economic and social groups is investigated, in order to obtain specific inflation measurement instruments. Evidence from most updated databases is given. The questions of the spatial comparisons of price levels through PPPs and th.