This chapter covers the theory and methods for productivity measurement for nations. Labor, multifactor and total … factor productivity growth (TFPG) index. These are easiest to understand for the case in which the index number problem is … demonstrate that a Paasche, Laspeyres or Fisher index number formula provides a measure for all four of the concepts of TFPG …

The OECD Compilation Manual for Index of Services Production contains guidelines and methodologies to measure short …

Basic Probability Theory and Markov Chains -- Estimation Techniques -- Non-Parametric Method of Estimation -- Unit Root … Implementation, this book helps foc- ing on strategies for rigorously combing finance theory and modeling technology to extend extant … other related modeling topics that help more in-depth exploration of finance theory and putting it into practice. As seen in …

economic measurement. His interest in the causes and consequences of technical progress led to his pathbreaking work on price … current economic thought. Here, leading scholars of economic measurement address issues in the areas of productivity, price … hedonics, capital measurement, diffusion of new technologies, and output and price measurement in “hard-to-measure” sectors of …

for advancing macroeconomic modeling in order to achieve more accurate economic measurement. Essays in this volume focus … policymakers working to improve current measurement systems and for academics concerned with conceptualizing effective measurement …