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Price Index Concepts and Measurement
Av W. Erwin Diewert, John Greenlees m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2131 kr
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Although inflation is much feared for its negative effects on the economy, how to measure it is a matter of considerable debate that has important implications for interest rates, monetary supply, and investment and spending decisions. Underlying many of these issues is the concept of the …
Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth
Av Stanley L. Engerman, Robert E. Gallman
Häftad, 1992
773 kr
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These classic studies of the history of economic change in 19th- and 20th-century United States, Canada, and British West Indies examine national product; capital stock and wealth; and fertility, health, and mortality. "A 'must have' in the library of the serious economic historian."—Samuel …
Scanner Data and Price Indexes
Av Robert C. Feenstra, Matthew D. Shapiro
Inbunden, 2002
853 kr
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The data from bar-code scanners offers a number of attractive features for economists and statisticians, because they are collected continuously, are available quickly and record prices for all items sold, not just a sample. But scanner data also presents a number of difficulties for current …
Output Measurement in the Service Sectors
Inbunden, 1992
1354 kr
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Is the fall in overall productivity growth in the United States and other developed countries related to the rising share of the service sectors in the economy? Since services represent well over half of the U.S. gross national product, it is also important to ask whether these sectors have had a …
Productivity Growth in Japan and the United States
Inbunden, 1994
1644 kr
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Emerging from the ruins of the Second World War, the Japanese economy has grown at double-digit rate throughout much of the 1950s and 1960s, and, when the oil crisis of the 1970s slowed growth throughout the industrialized world, Japanese growth throughout the industrialized world, Japanese growth …
Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses
Current Knowledge and Challenges
Av John Haltiwanger, Erik Hurst m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1240 kr
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Start-ups and other entrepreneurial ventures make a significant contribution to the US economy, particularly in the tech sector, where they comprise some of the largest and most influential companies. Yet for every high-profile, high-growth company like Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google, many …
Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs
Av Ana Aizcorbe, Colin Baker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1240 kr
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Health care costs represent a nearly 18% of U.S. gross domestic product and 20% of government spending. While there is detailed information on where these health care dollars are spent, there is much less evidence on how this spending affects health. The research in Measuring and Modeling Health …
Measuring and Accounting for Innovation in the Twenty-First Century
Av Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1240 kr
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Measuring innovation is a challenging task, both for researchers and for national statisticians, and it is increasingly important in light of the ongoing digital revolution. National accounts and many other economic statistics were designed before the emergence of the digital economy and the growth …
Big Data for Twenty-First-Century Economic Statistics
Av Katharine G. Abraham, Ron S. Jarmin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1417 kr
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The papers in this volume analyze the deployment of Big Data to solve both existing and novel challenges in economic measurement. The existing infrastructure for the production of key economic statistics relies heavily on data collected through sample surveys and periodic censuses, together with …
Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth
Av Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1671 kr
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A collection of twenty-three studies that explore the latest developments in the analysis of income and wealth distribution and mobility.Economic research is increasingly focused on inequality in the distribution of personal resources and outcomes. One aspect of inequality is mobility: are …
Challenges of Globalization in the Measurement of National Accounts
Av Nadim Ahmad, Brent R. Moulton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1161 kr
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An essential collection at the intersection of globalization, production supply chains, corporate finance regulation, and economic measurement.The substantial increase in the complexity of global supply chains and other production arrangements over the past three decades has challenged some …
Technology, Productivity, and Economic Growth
Av Susanto Basu, Lucy Eldridge m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1328 kr
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A wide-reaching exploration of how technological advancements influence and shape productivity and economic growth.Current technological developments in several industries, such as the rise of artificial intelligence and innovations associated with the green energy transition, are likely to have …
Measuring and Accounting for Environmental Public Goods
A National Accounts Perspective
Av Nicholas Z. Muller, Eli P. Fenichel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1204 kr
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Provides strategies and approaches for integrating natural capital into environmental statistics.While the importance of natural resources and the contributions of the environment to welfare are apparent, traditional national income and wealth accounting practices do not measure or value …
Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century
Av Randall Akee, Lawrence F. Katz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1801 kr
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Categorizing race and ethnicity for twenty-first-century statistics and economics.The increasing racial and ethnic diversity of the US population raises the question of whether the race and ethnicity categories and definitions used by federal statistical agencies to create demographic statistics on …
Labor in the New Economy
Av Katharine G. Abraham, James R. Spletzer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1214 kr
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This book examines a variety of important trends related to labor in the new economy, including inequality of earnings and other forms of compensation, job security, employer reliance on temporary and contract workers, hours of work, and workplace safety and health. "Labor in the New Economy" also …
Geography and Ownership as Bases for Economic Accounting
Av Robert E. Baldwin, Robert E. Lipsey m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
826 kr
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This text provides a forum for leading specialists in trade and international economics to explore whether changes in the world economy have increased the usefulness of international accounts drawn up on the basis of ownership rather than on geography. The papers in this volume suggest that …
Fifty Years of Economic Measurement
The Jubilee of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth
Av Ernst R. Berndt, Jack E. Triplett
Häftad, 1992
500 kr
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This volume contains papers presented at a conference in May 1988 in Washington, D.C., commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth (CRIW). The call for papers emphasized assessments of broad topics in economic measurement, both …
Hard-to-Measure Goods and Services
Essays in Honor of Zvi Griliches
Av Ernst R. Berndt, Charles R. Hulten
Inbunden, 2007
1266 kr
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The celebrated economist Zvi Griliches' entire career can be viewed as an attempt to advance the cause of accuracy in economic measurement. His interest in the causes and consequences of technical progress led to his pathbreaking work on price hedonics, now the principal analytical technique …
Measuring Economic Sustainability and Progress
Av Dale W. Jorgenson, J. Steven Landefeld m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1204 kr
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The latest in the NBER's influential Studies in Income and Wealth series, which has played a key role in the development of national account statistics in the United States and other nations, this volume explores collaborative solutions between academics, policy researchers, and official …
Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures
Av Christopher D. Carroll, Thomas F. Crossley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1240 kr
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Robust and reliable measures of consumer expenditures are essential for analyzing aggregate economic activity and for measuring differences in household circumstances. Many countries, including the United States, are embarking on ambitious projects to redesign surveys of consumer expenditures, …
Horizontal Equity, Uncertainty, and Economic Well-being
Av Martin David, Timothy Smeeding
Inbunden, 1985
1229 kr
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The result of a National Bureau of Economic Research Income and Wealth conference held in December 1983, this volume looks at the concept of "economic well-being" and the ways that analysts have tried to measure it. In addition to income, economists have begun to consider such factors as pensions, …
Producer Dynamics
New Evidence from Micro Data
Av Timothy Dunne, J. Bradford Jensen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1486 kr
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The Census Bureau has recently begun releasing official statistics that measure the movements of firms in and out of business and workers in and out of jobs. The economic analyses in "Producer Dynamics" exploit this newly available data to address issues in industrial organization, labor, growth, …
Measuring Wealth and Financial Intermediation and Their Links to the Real Economy
Av Charles R. Hulten, Marshall B. Reinsdorf
Inbunden, 2015
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More than half a decade has passed since the bursting of the housing bubble and the collapse of Lehman Brothers. In retrospect, what is surprising is that these events and their consequences came as such a surprise. What was it that prevented most of the world from recognizing the impending crisis …
U.S. National Income and Product Accounts
Selected Topics
Inbunden, 1983
1125 kr
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The main topics treated in this conference volume are problems of deflation and quality change, the adequacy of the data used to construct the U.S. national accounts, and the broad theoretical evolution of the U.S. national income and product accounts. As these topics suggest, this volume …
Labor Statistics Measurement Issues
Av John Haltiwanger, Marilyn E. Manser m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
967 kr
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Rapidly changing technology, the globalization of markets, and the declining role of unions are just some of the factors that have led to dramatic changes in working conditions in the United States. Little attention has been paid to the difficult measurement problems underlying analysis of the …
International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices
Av Alan Heston, Robert E. Lipsey
Inbunden, 2000
1266 kr
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This work includes discussions of developments in the United Nations International Comparison Program, the largest effort in this field, and in the ICOP programme on the production side, including efforts in both to extend the comparisons to the formerly planned economies. Other papers in this …
International Economic Transactions
Issues in Measurement and Empirical Research
Av Peter Hooper, David Richardson
Inbunden, 1992
1451 kr
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How the government arrives at its official economic statistics deeply influences the lives of every American. Social Security payments and even some wages are linked to import prices through official inflation rates; special measures of national product are necessary for valid comparisons of vital …
New Developments in Productivity Analysis
Av Charles R. Hulten, Edwin R. Dean m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1266 kr
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The productivity slowdown of the 1970s and 1980s and the resumption of productivity growth in the 1990s have provoked controversy among policymakers and researchers. Economists have been forced to reexamine fundamental questions of measurement technique. Some researchers argue that econometric …
Economic Transfers in the United States
Av Marilyn Moon
Inbunden, 1984
967 kr
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In recent years the definition of an economic transfer—a payment to an individual or institution that does not arise out of current productive activity—has been subject to even wider interpretation. This volume addresses that trend and introduces new methods of measuring transfers in the American …
Education, Skills, and Technical Change
Implications for Future US GDP Growth
Av Charles R. Hulten, Valerie A. Ramey
Inbunden, 2018
1153 kr
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Over the past few decades, US business and industry have been transformed by the advances and redundancies produced by the knowledge economy. The workplace has changed, and much of the work differs from that performed by previous generations. Can human capital accumulation in the United States keep …
