Author: Lequiller François Publisher: OECD Publishing ISBN: 9264214631 Category : Languages : en Pages : 520
Book Description
This is an update of OECD 2006 "Understanding National Accounts". It contains new data, new chapters and is adapted to the new systems of national accounts, SNA 2008 and ESA 2010.
Author: André Vanoli Publisher: IOS Press ISBN: 9781586034696 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 554
Book Description
In A History of National Accounting, Andre Vanoli focuses on the history of accounting in the second part of the 20th century. The book is about the relations between economic theories and the observation of the present and the past looked at from the viewpoint of economic measurement. Some parts of the book are especially devoted to the French experience in this field, but the point of view is deliberately universal. The publication is about; The birth of national accounting; The evolution of systems of accounts and accounting issues in the perspective of international harmonization; National accounts as a statistical synthesis; Concepts and their relations with economic theory; Uses and status of national accounting.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309173388 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 262
Book Description
In order to really see the forest, what's the best way to count the trees? Understanding how the economy interacts with the environment has important implications for policy, regulatory, and business decisions. How should our national economic accounts recognize the increasing interest in and importance of the environment? Nature's Numbers responds to concerns about how the United States should make these measurements. The book recommends how to incorporate environmental and other non-market measures into the nation's income and product accounts. The panel explores alternative approaches to environmental accounting, including those used in other countries, and addresses thorny issues such as how to measure the stocks of natural resources and how to value non-market activities and assets. Specific applications to subsoil minerals, forests, and clean air show how the general principles can be applied. The analysis and insights provided in this book will be of interest to economists, policymakers, environmental advocates, economics faculty, businesses based on natural resources, and managers concerned with the role of the environment in our economic affairs.
Author: Guðmundur Jónsson Publisher: University of Iceland Press ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 276
Book Description
The articles gathered in this volume were originally delivered as lectures at a two-day workshop on Nordic historical national accounting, jointly held by the Institute of History and the Economic Institute at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik in 2003. Nordic Historical National Accounts contains 13 articles on both the broader questions of the historical national accounting approach and case studies on economic growth and its components, in addition to methodological issues. The articles are written by the following 15 economic historians and economists: Jan-Pieter Smits, Niels Kaergard, Ola Grytten, Peter Vikstrom, Jari Kauppilla, Elisabeth Bjorsvik, Johanna and Seppo Varjonen, Carl-Axel Nilsson, Magnus Lindmark, Sveinn Agnarsson Gudmundur Jonsson, Ragnar Arnason, Jukka Jalava and Pirkko Aulin-Ahmavaara.
Author: United Nations Publisher: Studies in Methods (Ser. F) ISBN: 9789211615777 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This Handbook aims to provide practical guidance on the calculation and allocation of the production of various types of financial services and issues related to the compilation of the financial account and balance sheets by institutional sector in the context of from-whom-to-whom relationships. The Handbook complements the 2008 SNA and related manuals, handbooks and guides. The concepts are described and defined in line with the 2008 SNA. Where appropriate, illustrative worked examples with step-by-step guidance are provided in the Handbook to give compilers and users a better picture of how to apply and interpret the various concepts. The Handbook is useful for staff working in national statistical offices, national central banks, international organizations and other institutions engaged in collecting, compiling and disseminating national accounts data, specifically on the financial corporations sector and financial account, and for users requiring a better understanding of such data.
Author: International Monetary Fund Publisher: International Monetary Fund ISBN: 9789211613520 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 778
Book Description
The 1993 SNA represents a major advance in national accounting. While updating and clarifying the 1968 SNA, the 1993 SNA provides the basis for improving compilation of national accounts statistics, promoting integration of economic and related statistics, and enhancing analysis of economic developments. The 1993 SNA deals more clearly with relationships between economic flows (such as production, income, savings, accumulation, and financing) and links between these flows and stocks. At the same time the 1993 SNA reflects the many significant developments that have taken place in financial markets and completes the integration of balance sheets into the system. The 1993 SNA also suggests how satellite accounts (e.g. environmental accounts) and alternative classifications (e.g., through social accounting matrices) an be used to augment the central framework of the system.
Author: Øyvind Eitrheim Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316824659 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 655
Book Description
This book provides a broad overview of monetary developments in Norway over the past 200 years, using a rich variety of graphical illustrations based on a unique data set of historical monetary statistics, which will be documented and made available on the Norges Bank website (in English) at http://www.norges-bank.no/en. Throughout the book, Norway's monetary developments are anchored in a historical context and in the development of monetary thinking. Through their analysis of the historical data, the authors provide new insights and comparisons to other Scandinavian countries, along with an excellent examination of the development and character of the banking and financial system in Norway.
Author: Tom Bernhardsen Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 76
Book Description
National accounts data are always revised. Not only recent data, but also figures dating many years back can be revised substantially. This means that there is a danger that an important part of the central bank's information set is flawed for a long period of time. In this paper we present a data base consisting of various vintages of real-time data from 1993Q1 to 2003Q4. We describe the nature of the data revisions, the causes of the revisions, and investigate whether the revisions are true martingale differences, or whether they can be forecasted. In the spirit of Orphanides and van Norden (2002), we analyze how data revisions and model uncertainty affect the reliability of output gap estimates. We also compare Taylor type interest rate rules based on real-time data versus final data and assess the consequences for monetary policy if policy was conducted using this type of interest rate rules. Finally, we analyze the implications of output gap uncertainty for monetary policy using a small New Keynesian macroeconomic model.
Author: Philipp Lepenies Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231541430 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 203
Book Description
Widely used since the mid-twentieth century, GDP (gross domestic product) has become the world's most powerful statistical indicator of national development and progress. Practically all governments adhere to the idea that GDP growth is a primary economic target, and while criticism of this measure has grown, neither its champions nor its detractors deny its central importance in our political culture. In The Power of a Single Number, Philipp Lepenies recounts the lively history of GDP's political acceptance—and eventual dominance. Locating the origins of GDP measurements in Renaissance England, Lepenies explores the social and political factors that originally hindered its use. It was not until the early 1900s that an ingenuous lone-wolf economist revived and honed GDP's statistical approach. These ideas were then extended by John Maynard Keynes, and a more focused study of national income was born. American economists furthered this work by emphasizing GDP's ties to social well-being, setting the stage for its ascent. GDP finally achieved its singular status during World War II, assuming the importance it retains today. Lepenies's absorbing account helps us understand the personalities and popular events that propelled GDP to supremacy and clarifies current debates over the wisdom of the number's rule.
Author: Lequiller François
Author: André Vanoli
Author: Øyvind Eitrheim
Author: National Research Council
Author: Guðmundur Jónsson
Author: United Nations
Author: International Monetary Fund
Author: Øyvind Eitrheim
Author: Tom Bernhardsen
Author: Philipp Lepenies