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Improving the SNA : alternative measures of output, input, income, and productivity

Diewert, Walter E.; Nomura, Kōji; Shimizu, Chihiro - In: Review of income and wealth 70 (2024) 4, pp. 1142-1189

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Improving the SNA : alternative measures of output, input, income and productivity for China

Shimizu, Chihiro; Diewert, Walter E.; Nomura, Kōji - 2023

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An Economic Approach to the Measurement of Productivity Growth Using Differences Instead of Ratios

Diewert, Erwin; Mizobuchi, Hideyuki - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

Traditional index number theory decomposes a value ratio into the product of a price index times a quantity index. Growth accounting is based on this traditional approach to index number theory. This paper takes an alternative approach which decomposes a value difference into the sum of a price...

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Comment on Different Approaches to Index Number Theory

Diewert, Erwin; Hill, Robert J. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

present paper. Key Words Exact index numbers, true index numbers, multilateral indexes, the Fisher ideal index, cost … criticisms of VW? We think that VW justified in noting the limitations of above theory exact index numbers. Some of these …

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Cost of Living Indexes and Exact Index Numbers

Diewert, Erwin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

The paper reviews and extends the theory of exact and superlative index numbers. Exact index numbers are empirical … the homothetic case, exact index numbers are obtained for square root quadratic preferences, quadratic mean of order r … 1 Cost of Living Indexes and Exact Index Numbers Revised, August 6, 2009. W. Erwin Diewert, 1 …

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Operational identification of the complete class of superlative index numbers: an application of Galois theory

Barnett, William; Choi, Ki-Hong - Department of Economics, University of Kansas - 2006

We provide an operational identification of the complete class of superlative index numbers to track the exact aggregator functions of economic aggregation theory. If an index number is linearly homogeneous and a second order approximation in a formal manner that we define, we prove the index to...

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Chapter 66 The Measurement of Productivity for Nations

Diewert, W. Erwin; Nakamura, Alice O. - In: Handbook of econometrics : volume 6A, (pp. 4501-4586). 2007

This chapter covers the theory and methods for productivity measurement for nations. Labor, multifactor and total factor productivity measures are defined and are related to each other and to gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. Their growth over time and relative counterparts are defined as...

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