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Industrial Price, Quantity, and Productivity Indices

The Micro-Economic Theory and an Application

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  • © 1998

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  1. Bert M. Balk

    1. Statistics Netherlands, The Netherlands

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Bert M. Balk
    Pages 1-10

  3. Primal Representations of the Technology

    • Bert M. Balk
    Pages 11-24

  4. The Input Side of the Firm: Direct Functions and Indices

    • Bert M. Balk
    Pages 25-79

  5. The Output Side of the Firm: Direct Functions and Indices

    • Bert M. Balk
    Pages 81-114

  6. The Input Side of the Firm: Indirect Functions and Indices

    • Bert M. Balk
    Pages 115-137

  7. The Output Side of the Firm: Indirect Functions and Indices

    • Bert M. Balk
    Pages 139-159

  8. Profit Function Based Indices and Indicators

    • Bert M. Balk
    Pages 161-178

  9. An Application

    • Bert M. Balk
    Pages 179-209

  10. Some Extensions

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    Pages 211-224

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 225-240
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About this book

Industrial Price, Quantity, and Productivity Indices: The Micro-Economic Theory and an Application gives a comprehensive account of the micro-economic foundations of industrial price, quantity, and productivity indices. The various results available from the literature have been brought together into a consistent framework, based upon modern duality theory. This integration also made it possible to generalize several of these results. Thus, this book will be an important resource for theoretically as well as empirically-oriented researchers who seek to analyse economic problems with the help of index numbers.
Although this book's emphasis is on micro-economic theory, it is also intended as a practical guide. A full chapter is therefore devoted to an empirical application. Three different approaches are pursued: a straightforward empirical approach, a non-parametric estimation approach, and a parametric estimation approach. As well as illustrating some of the more important concepts explored in this book, and showing to what extent different computational approaches lead to different outcomes for the same measures, this chapter also makes a powerful case for the use of enterprise micro-data in economic research.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Statistics Netherlands, The Netherlands

    Bert M. Balk

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Industrial Price, Quantity, and Productivity Indices

  • Book Subtitle: The Micro-Economic Theory and an Application

  • Authors: Bert M. Balk

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5454-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8244-7Published: 31 August 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5054-3Published: 03 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-5454-4Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 240

  • Topics: Microeconomics, Econometrics, Operations Research/Decision Theory

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