Diewert, Erwin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
5-7 below.
5. Superlative Indexes I: The Fisher Ideal Index
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Recall that the Fisher price index, P
F
(p
0
,p … ideal
index, normalized quadratic preferences, mean of order r indexes, homothetic preferences,
nonhomothetic preferences … various translog preferences.
Key Words
Exact index numbers, superlative index numbers, flexible functional forms, Fisher …