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

• Pubblicazione: Chicago, Ill., : University of Chicago Press, 1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (546 p.)
• Disciplina: 330 s; 339.3
• Soggetto topico: National income; Prices
• Soggetto non controllato: output, real income, prices, exchange rates, price levels, economics, trade, finance, business, international comparisons, spanning trees, commodity aggregation, goods, compensation, brazil, europe, health expenses, healthcare, medical care, parities, purchasing power, soviet, republic of moldova, baltic countries, romania, mexico, france, communications, transport, distribution, transition economies, industry, productivity, quantities, technology, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, regulation, wage dispersion, nonfiction
• Altri autori: HestonAlan W LipseyRobert E
• 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comparisons in the past thirty years, but descriptions and discussions of the new measures have been scattered in unpublished or inaccessible papers.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.
• Titolo autorizzato: International and interarea comparisons of income, output, and prices
• ISBN: 1-281-22359-X; 9786611223595; 0-226-33112-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827660103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in income and wealth ; ; v. 61.