manufacturing sector has little or no significant effect on the productivity of other sectors. Using value-added data, however, we …

Explanations of procyclical productivity play a key role in a variety of business-cycle models. Most of these models … aggregate productivity changes into several terms, each of which has an economic interpretation. However, many of these terms …

prefectures during the period 1981-2000. The decomposition analysis of the Hicks-Moorsteen-Bjurek productivity index is conducted …This paper aims to examine the productivity change of the Japanese economy using the data pertaining to the 47 … to explore the sources of the productivity change. In summary, technical change and efficiency change are two of the most …

to the monetary authority. We implement this idea using a relatively modern statistical technique, a dynamic factor index … prices in the aggregate price statistic has introduced a downward bias in the U.S. Consumer Price Index on the order of …

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) attempts to answer the question of how much more (or less) income does a consumer … calucation of the cost of living index. The data requirements and need to specify and estimate a demand function for a new brand …

estimation is an implicit price index for lottery, which can serve as a cost-of-living index for the CPI. The estimated price …

Index. We identify three sources of data error which are due to (i) data updating, (ii) formula revisions and (iii …

Entrepreneurship Quality Index (EQI) and the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort Potential Index (RECPI). We use these indices to offer a …. Third, we find a high correlation between an index that depends only on information directly observable from business … registration records (and so can be calculated on a real-time basis) with an index that allows for a two-year lag that allows the …

purchases, while Bargain Hunters always pay the lowest price available, the "best price". We derive the ideal price index and …