Price and Productivity Measurement: Volume 2 - Seasonality

This is the second in a sequence of volumes about the official statistics measures of inflation and productivity for nations. The volume focus is seasonality. The usual assumption in the index number literature is that the periods are entire years. In actual applications, imputation or deletion of seasonal products is common. The papers in this volume demonstrate better ways of handling seasonal products in price indexes.

About the Editors: W. Erwin Diewert is a professor of economics at the University of British Columbia in Canada, the long time Chair of the Statistics Canada Price Measurement Advisory Committee, and a major contributor to numerous international official statistics manuals (http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/ediewert/hmpgdie.htm). He has won many Canadian and international awards including the 2005 Julius Shiskin Memorial Award for Economics and Statistics. He is also a Distinguished Fellow of both the American Economics Association and the Canadian Economics Association. Bert M. Balk is a professor of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and is also with Statistics Netherlands. Dennis J. Fixler is the Chief Statistician of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Kevin J. Fox is a professor of economics and is Head of the School of Economics in the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales and also Director of the Centre for Applied Economic Research (CAER). Alice O. Nakamura is a professor of the University of Alberta School of Business.