Productivity

Prof. Dr. Bert M. Balk (1947) held a chair in business administration, in particular the measurement of price, quantity, and productivity changes and economic-statistical research, at Rotterdam School of Management, from 2001 to 2011. This chair was supported by Statistics Netherlands, where Prof. Balk worked in various positions from 1973 to 2011. He was deputy head of the Department for Price Statistics, and pioneering director of the Center for Research of Enterprise Microdata. His research interests include measurement in economics, in particular index number theory and productivity measurement. He has published a large number of articles in academic journals, has written two books, and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Productivity Analysis, Statistica Neerlandica, and The Review of Income and Wealth. He is a fellow of the Society for Economic Measurement.

“The new monograph is theoretically and methodologically rigorous, and promising for practice. It dexterously attempts to bridge the gap between theory and practice as it guides the textbook-oriented theorists through a toolbox full of instruments … and the practice-oriented policy developers to understand the nuances of productivity change on the other.” (Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber and Jinal Parikh, zbMATH 1491.91002, 2022)

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: A Framework without Assumptions.- Chapter 3: Capital Input Cost.- Chapter 4: Annual and Quarterly Measures.- Chapter 5: Dynamics: The Bottom-Up Approach.- Chapter 6: The Top-Down Approach 1 - Aggregate Output and Simple Labour Productivity Indices.- Chapter 7: The Top-Down Approach 2 - Aggregate Total Factor Productivity Index.- Chapter 8: The Top-Down Approach 3 - Aggregate Total Factor Productivity Level.- Chapter 9: Connecting the Two Approaches.- Chapter 10: The Components of Total Factor Productivity Change.- Bibliography.- Index.