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Bortkiewicz on Chain Indices and Irving Fisher's Reversal Tests, A Historical Note and a Disapproval of the Time Reversal Test

von der Lippe, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz has criticized chain indices and Irving Fisher's time and factor reversal tests. However, his arguments (published in German articles) though well ahead of his time and still relevant today are widely fallen in oblivion. He was not the only German statistician who...

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Bias Due to Input Source Substitutions: Can It Be Measured?

Diewert, Erwin; Nakamura, Alice O. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

Once a business opts to purchase rather than produce an input, it can also change the source from which the product is procured. Producer price index programs face problems in dealing with price changes associated with sourcing changes. We present measures for price index bias due to sourcing...

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A statistical framework for the analysis of productivity and sustainable development

Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

To analyse the consequences of the changing economic structure of the UK, we need a set of statistics broken down by industry that are consistent with the whole economy measures available from the national accounts. The theory of growth accounting then provides a framework in which the...

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Magyarország helye Európa gazdaságában. Fejlettségi és dinamikai ténykép

Borbély, Szilvia; Vanicsek, Mária - In: Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the … XLVIII (2001) 1, pp. 63-90

Tanulmányunkban az Európai Unió tagországainak, az Egyesült Államok, Japán és Magyarország gazdasági erejét, súlyát, dinamikáját, struktúráját hasonlítjuk össze. Az elemzés alapjául a gazdaság szektorai vagy ágazatai szolgáltak. Felmérésünk kiindulópontjai a (TEÁOR...

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A method to evaluate composite performance indices based on variance-covariance matrix

Albu, Lucian-Liviu; Ciuiu, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In this paper we compute performance indices like those from Mereuta et all. (2007) using the eigenvalues and the eigenvectors of the variance-covariance matrix of these indices. The eigenvalues are used in this paper to give natural weights to the performance indices in order to compute the...

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Multilateralisation of Manufacturing Sector Comparisons: Issues, Methods and Empirical Results.

Rao, D.S.P.; Timmer, M. - SOM Research Institute, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde - 2000

This paper examines the feasibility of constructing a consistent set of multilateral comparisons of manufacturing sector output and productivity within the framework of the ICOP project. A major objective of the paper is to construct truly multilateral comparisons using the existing data base of...

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A Restricted-Domain Multilateral Test Approach to the Theory of International Comparisons.

Armstrong, Keir - Carleton University, Department of Economics - 1996

This paper develops a novel multilateral test approach to the problem of international comparisons. Many of the …

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Methods of Aggregation above the Basic Heading Level: Linking the Regions

Diewert, Erwin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011

The paper explains part of the methodology that was used in the 2005 International Comparison Program (ICP) that …

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Methods of Aggregation above the Basic Heading Level within Regions

Diewert, Erwin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011

The paper explains part of the methodology that was used in the 2005 International Comparison Program (ICP) that …

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Understanding PPPs and PPP-Based National Accounts

Deaton, Angus; Heston, Alan - In: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 2 (2010) 4, pp. 1-35

international differences in quality; the treatment of urban and rural areas of large countries; how to estimate prices for … government services, health, and education; and the effects of the regional structure of the latest International Comparison … warnings. Some international comparisons are close to impossible, even in theory, and in others, the practical difficulties …

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