models for measuring aggregate change and difference /
First Statement of Responsibility
Bert M. Balk.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xv, 283 pages ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-280) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Price indices through history -- The quest for international comparisons -- Axioms, tests, and indices -- Decompositions and subperiods -- Price indices for elementary aggregates -- Divisia and Montgmery indices -- International comparisons : transitivity and additivity.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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. There is no role for behavioral assumptions. In addition to subject matter chapters, two entire chapters are devoted to the rich history of the subject."--Jacket.