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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451279903321

Titolo

International and interarea comparisons of income, output, and prices [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Alan Heston and Robert E. Lipsey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, Ill., : University of Chicago Press, 1999

ISBN

1-281-22359-X

9786611223595

0-226-33112-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (546 p.)

Collana

Studies in income and wealth ; ; v. 61

Altri autori (Persone)

HestonAlan W

LipseyRobert E

Disciplina

330 s

339.3

Soggetti

National income

Prices

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Rev. papers from the CRIW Conference on International and Interarea Comparisons of Prices, Income, and Output held in Arlington, Va., Mar. 15-16, 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Theoretical bases of multilateral interspatial comparisons -- 2. Interarea price and wage comparisons -- 3. Informal reports on methods and the geographic expansion of the international comparison program -- 4. Reports from the international comparisons of output and productivity program -- 5. Applications of international comparison data.

Sommario/riassunto

Economists wish to compare prices, real income, and output across countries and regions for many purposes. In the past, such comparisons were made in nominal terms, or by using exchange rates across countries, ignoring differences in price levels and thus distorting the results. Great progress has been made in interspatial comparisons in the past thirty years, but descriptions and discussions of the new measures have been scattered in unpublished or inaccessible papers. International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices includes discussions of developments in the United Nations



International Comparison Program, the largest effort in this field, and in the ICOP program on the production side, including efforts in both to extend the comparisons to the formerly planned economies. Other papers in this volume explore new programs on interspatial comparisons within the United States. There are also theoretical papers on how interspatial comparisons should be made and several examples of uses of such comparisons.