Hard-to-measure goods and services : essays in honor of Zvi Griliches / edited by Ernst R. Berndt and Charles R. Hulten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conference on Research in Income and Wealth (2003 : Bethesda, Md.)

Contributor:

Berndt, Ernst R.

Hulten, Charles R.

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 67.

Studies in income and wealth ; v. 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Griliches, Zvi, 1930-1999.

Griliches, Zvi.

Econometrics--Congresses.

Econometrics.

Income distribution--Congresses.

Income distribution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (621 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The celebrated economist Zvi Griliches's entire career can be viewed as an attempt to advance the cause of accuracy in economic measurement. His interest in the causes and consequences of technical progress led to his pathbreaking work on price hedonics, now the principal analytical technique available to account for changes in product quality. Hard-to-Measure Goods and Services, a collection of papers from an NBER conference held in Griliches's honor, is a tribute to his many contributions to current economic thought. Here, leading scholars of economic measurement

Contents:

Theory and measurement : an essay in honor of Zvi Griliches / Charles R. Hulten

Production function and wage equation estimation with heterogeneous labor : evidence from a new matched employer-employee data set / Judith Hellerstein and David Neumark

Where does the time go? : concepts and measurement in the American time

Use survey / Harley Frazis and Jay Stewart

Technology and the theory of Vintage Aggregation / Michael J. Harper

Why do computers depreciate? / Michael J. Geske, Valerie A. Ramey, and Matthew D. Shapiro

Downward bias in the most important CPI component / Robert J. Gordon and Todd vanGoethem

Pricing at the on-ramp to the internet : price indices for ISPs during the 1990s / Greg Stranger and Shane Greenstein

Different approaches to estimating Hedonic indexes / Saeed Heravi and Mick Silver

Price indexes for microsoft's personal computer software products / Jaison R. Abel, Ernst R. Berndt, and Alan G. White

International comparisons of R&D expenditure : does an R&D PPP make a difference? / Sean M. Dougherty, Robert Inklaar, Robert H. McGuckin, and Bart van Ark

Information technology and the G7 economies / Dale W. Jorgenson

The role of semiconductor inputs in it hardware price decline : computers vs. communications / Ana Aizcorbe, Kenneth Flamm, and Anjum Khurshid

Computer input, computer networks, and productivity / B. K. Atrostic and Sang Nguyen

Services productivity in the United States : Griliches' services volume revisited / Barry P. Bosworth and Jack E. Triplett

A consistent accounting of U.S. productivity growth / Eric J. Bartelsman and J. Joseph Beaulieu

Should exact index numbers have standard errors? : theory and application to Asian growth / Robert C. Feenstra and Marshall B. Reinsdorf

What really happened to consumption inequality in the U.S.? / Orazio Attanasio, Erich Battistin, and Hidehiko Ichimura

Technology adoption from hybrid corn to beta blockers / Jonathan Skinner and Douglas Staiger.

Notes:

Conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612069567

9781282069565

128206956X

9780226044507

0226044505

OCLC:

370380809