Sydney N. Afriat

The Price Index and its Extension (eBook, PDF)

A Chapter in Economic Measurement

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The book is not an unrestricted survey engaging a vast and repetative literature, but a systematic treatise within clear boundaries, largely a document of Afriat's own work. The original motive of the work is to elaborate a concept of what really is a price index, which, despite some kind of price-level notion having a presence throughout economics

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134358656
• Artikelnr.: 42980715

Autorenporträt

S. N. Afriat currently associated with the University of Siena, Italy, has a long and distinguished record of publishing at the interface of mathematics and economics. His most recent book The Market: Equilibrium, Stability, Mythology is also published by Routledge (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Paasche, Laspeyres and FisherIntroduction - Theory and Practice1.
Comparisons2. Fleetwood's student3. What is a price index? I - Three
Problems 1. The 'Index Number Problem'2. Formulae and tests3.
Utility-cost4. Cost efficiency and effectiveness5. The price index6.
Problems II - The General Probem of Limits 1. Consistency of demands2.
Revealed choice and preference3. Preference-nonpreference contradiction4.
Cost-efficiency and nonsatiation5. Critical costs6. Revealed bounds and
classical limits III - The Homogeneous Problem - Laspeyres and Paasche 1.
Conical utility and expansion loci2. Homogeneous consistency3. Revealed
homogeneous preference4. Range of the price index5. Revealed bounds6.
Classical limits IV - Fisher and quadratics 1. Byushgens on Fisher2.
Question about Byushgens3. Gradients and quadratics4. Conditions for
compatibility5. Theorem on quadratic consistencyPart II - The Cost of
Living I - Price and quantity levels 1. Price-quantity duality2. Dual
function examples3. Price and quantity levels4. Limits of Indeterminacy II
- The True Index 1. The cost of living2. The price index3. Formulae, and
Fisher's Tests4. The Paasche-Laspeyres interval5. Existence test6. Theory
and practice7. Many periods8. Price levels9. Fisher's formula III - Fisher
and Byushgens 1. Byushgens' theorem2. The existence question3. Purchasing
power correspondence4. Many-period generalization IV - The Four Point
Formula 1. Median multipliers and levels2. Centre locus3. Linear purchasing
power4. Critical locations5. Elliptical case V - Wald's New Formula 1.
Linear expansions2. Revealed purchasing power3. The critical points4.
Marginal price indices, and limits