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The purpose of this book is to honour D.S. Prasada Rao and his many outstanding contributions to economic measurement, including index number methods for international comparisons of prices, real incomes, output, and productivity; stochastic approaches to index numbers; purchasing power parities for the measurement of regional and global inequality and poverty; and measurement of income and economic insecurity.
This book brings together contributions by well-known and influential researchers in the field of economic measurement with special focus on topics in productivity measurement (Part I); income and health inequality, inequality of opportunity, and measurement of insecurity (Part II); index number theory and applications to consumer price index numbers, international comparisons of prices and real expenditures, and housing price index numbers (Part III). The chapters are authored by eminent researchers including Conchita D'Ambrosio, Bert Balk, Erwin Diewert, Robert Hill, Robert Inklaar, Knox Lovell, Robin Sickles, Jacques Silber and Marcel Timmer. The contributed papers offer in-depth reviews of the state of the art in these areas with a focus on the existing methods and applications, making the volume an invaluable source for both experienced researchers and new researchers, including PhD and other postgraduate students.
Contents
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.
