INTERNATIONAL AND INTERAREA COMPARISONS OF INCOME, OUTPOUT, AND PRICES

HESTON, ALAN

ISBN 10: 0226331105 / ISBN 13: 9780226331102

Published by ARES PUBLISHING, 1999

About this Item

Economists wish to compare prices, real income, and output across countries and regions for many purposes. In the past, such comparisons were made in nominal terms, or by using exchange rates across countries, ignoring differences in price levels and thus distorting the results. Great progress has been made in interspatial comparisons in the past thirty years, but descriptions and discussions of the new measures have been scattered in unpublished or inaccessible papers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: INTERNATIONAL AND INTERAREA COMPARISONS OF INCOME, OUTPOUT, AND PRICES
• Publisher: ARES PUBLISHING
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226331105
• ISBN 13: 9780226331102
• Binding: Cartoné (tapa dura cartón)
• Edition: 1.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Nuevo
• Book Type: LIBRO

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Synopsis

Economists wish to compare prices, real income, and output across countries and regions for many purposes. In the past, such comparisons were made in nominal terms, or by using exchange rates across countries, ignoring differences in price levels and thus distorting the results. Great progress has been made in interspatial comparisons in the past thirty years, but descriptions and discussions of the new measures have been scattered in unpublished or inaccessible papers.

International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices includes discussions of developments in the United Nations International Comparison Program, the largest effort in this field, and in the ICOP program on the production side, including efforts in both to extend the comparisons to the formerly planned economies. Other papers in this volume explore new programs on interspatial comparisons within the United States. There are also theoretical papers on how interspatial comparisons should be made and several examples of uses of such comparisons.

About the Author

Robert E. Lipsey is professor of economics at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is also a research associate of the NBER and director of its New York office. Helen Stone Tice is an assistant to the director at the Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce.