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

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9811920222
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎9789811920226
• Author: Duangkamon Chotikapanich, Alicia N. Rambaldi, Nicholas Rohde 

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.

Table of contents:

1. Past Present and Future
2. On Levels NonAdditivity and Misallocation
3. Efficiency Analysis with Stochastic Frontier Models Using Popular Statistical Softwares
4. Historical Overview
5. Modelling Income Distributions with Limited Data
6. Empirical Methods for Modelling Economic Insecurity
7. Measuring Inequality in Health
8. Theoretical Considerations and Recent Empirical Evidence
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

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