Advances in Economic Measurement : A Volume in Honour of D. S. Prasada Rao

Part I Productivity Measurement -- 1. Productivity Measurement – Past, Present and Future -- 2. Symmetric Decompositions of Aggregate Output and Labour Productivity Growth: On Levels, (Non-) Additivity, and Misallocation -- 3. Efficiency Analysis with Stochastic Frontier Models using Popular Statistical Softwares -- 4. Efficiency and Productivity Analysis from a System Perspective: Historical Overview -- Part II Income Distributions and Inequality and Insecurity -- 5. Modelling Income Distributions with Limited Data -- 6. Empirical Methods for Modelling Economic Insecurity -- 7. Measuring Inequality in Health -- 8. Inequality of Opportunity:Theoretical Considerations and Recent Empirical Evidence -- Part III Index Numbers and International Comparisons of Prices and Real Expenditures -- 9. Framing Measurement Beyond GDP -- 10. Hedonic Models and House Price Index Numbers -- 11. Scanner Data, Elementary Price Indexes and the Chain Drift Problem -- 12. The Stochastic Approach to International Price Comparisons -- 13. Inconsistencies in Cross-country Price Comparisons Over Time: Patterns and Facts.