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Title

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

Publication

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

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Additional Authors

• Heston, Alan W.
• Lipsey, Robert E.
• Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.
• CRIW Conference on International and Interarea Comparisons of Price, Income, and Output (1996 : Arlington, Va.)

Description

xii, 530 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 61

Subjects

• National income > Congresses
• Prices > Congresses

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Axiomatic and economic approaches to international comparisons / W. Erwin Diewert -- International comparisons using spanning trees / Robert J. Hill -- Interarea price comparisons for heterogeneous goods and several levels of commodity aggregation / Mary F. Kokoski, Brent R. Moulton, Kimberly D. Zieschang -- Constructing interarea compensation cost indexes with data from multiple surveys / W. Brooks Pierce, John W. Ruser, Kimberly D. Zieschang -- Cities in Brazil: an interarea price comparison / Bettina H. Aten -- Purchasing power parities for medical care and health expenses / Giuliano Amerini -- Comparisons for countries of Central and Eastern Europe / Alfred Franz -- Multilateral comparison of the Baltic countries, 1993 / Seppo Varjonen -- Report on the Romania-Republic of Moldova bilateral comparison, benchmark year 1993 / Daniela Elena Stefanescu, Maria Chisinevschi -- A critique of CIA estimates of Soviet performance from the Gerschenkron perspective / Yuri Dikhanov -- The measurement of performance in distribution, transport, and communications: the ICOP approach applied to Brazil, Mexico, France, and the United States / Nanno Mulder -- Prices, quantities, and productivity in industry: a study of transition economies in a comparative perspective / Bart van Ark, Erik Monnikhof, Marcel Timmer -- The effects of price regulation on productivity in pharmaceuticals / Patricia M. Danzon, Allison Percy -- Specialization and productivity performance in low-, medium-, and high-tech manufacturing industries / Edward N. Wolff -- Wage dispersion and country price levels / Robert E. Lipsey, Birgitta Swedenborg -- The world distribution of well-being dissected / Robert Summers, Alan Heston.

Call Number

JBE 04-1567

ISBN

0226331105 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

99029819

OCLC

41285036

Title

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

Imprint

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

Series

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 61

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Heston, Alan W.

Lipsey, Robert E.

Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.

CRIW Conference on International and Interarea Comparisons of Price, Income, and Output (1996 : Arlington, Va.)

Research Call Number

JBE 04-1567