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Return to Dollar, Generalized Distance Function and the Fisher Productivity Index
Exploring the duality between a return to dollar definition of profit and the generalized distance function we establish the relationship between the...
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A Method for Transitive and Additive Multilateral Comparisons: A Transitive Bennet Indicator
It is shown how the Bennet indicator (or ``index'') can be made transitive. This is particular useful for making consistent (profit, cost, price,...
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Forecasting Inflation: An Art as Well as a Science!
In this study, we build two forecasting models to predict inflation Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) for the Netherlands and for the euro...
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Aggregation of Productivity Indices: The Allocative Efficiency Correction
Aggregation of productivity indices is known to be consistent under very restrictive conditions only. This paper quantifies the aggregation...
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Time series analysis and stochastic forecasting: An econometric study of mortality and life expectancy
Methods for time series modeling of mortality and stochastic forecasting of life expectancies are explored, using Canadian data. Consideration is...
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Korean And Taiwanese Productivity Performance: Comparisons at Matched Manufacturing Levels
We compare the productivity performances of 15 matched manufacturing sectors in Korea and Taiwan, using the Malmquist productivity indexes, based on...
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A Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indicator: its relation to the Hicks-Moorsteen productivity index and the Luenberger productivity indicator
Introducing a new difference-based Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indicator, this contribution establishes theoretically its relations with...
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Shadow Price Approach to Total Factor Productivity Measurement: With an Application to Finnish Grass-Silage Production
This paper explores an intermediate route between the Fisher and the Malmquist productivity indexes so as to minimize data requirements and...
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An Implicit Törnqvist Index of Real GDP
Recently much attention has been devoted to superlative indexes in the context of the national accounts. In this paper we advocate the use of the...
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An Exact Index for the CES Function with Unobservable Prices
Introduction of new products into the market place poses a difficult problem for the calculation of a cost-of-living (COL) index. The problem is that...
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Matrizenrechnung
Die Matrizenrechnung — als Teil der Linearen Algebra — hat für die Wirtschaftswissenschaften eine sehr große Bedeutung.
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The theory of economic price and quantity indicators
This paper develops the theory of economic price and quantity indicators, being the difference analogue of indexes. The properties of indicators and...
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On the performance of the Chow-Lin procedure for quarterly interpolation of annual data: Some Monte-Carlo analysis
Most of the countries of the OECD offer quarterly estimates of their national growth or of their Gross National Product. Official Statistical...
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The Decomposition of Malmquist Productivity Indexes
Two different Malmquist productivity indexes have been proposed. One I call partially oriented because it is either output- or input-oriented, and...
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Adapting Productivity Theory to the Quadratic Cost Function. An Application to the Spanish Electric Sector
In this article we have adapted productivity analysis to the case of a cost model using a quadratic cost function and discrete data. The main...
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Sequential Malmquist Indices of Productivity Growth: An Application to OECD Industrial Activities
The paper applies both the standard DEA methodology with contemporaneous frontiers and DEA with sequential frontiers to study changes in productivity...