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The Measurement of Real Product.
Michael Ward,T. P. Hill +1 more
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This article is published in The Economic Journal.The article was published on 1971-12-01. It has received 11 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Product (mathematics).read more
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Harmonized Indexes of Consumer Prices: Their Conceptual Foundations
TL;DR: The Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) is the single most important indicator of inflation used by the European Central Bank (ECBundesbank) as discussed by the authors.
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Measuring the real output of the life insurance industry
Ron Hirshhorn,Randall Geehan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that an analysis of industry growth and productivity is only as good as the industry output measures on which they are based; and for many service industries (especially finance, insurance, government administration, health services and education) the real output measures that are generally adopted are poor indeed.
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The role of the service sector in Soviet GNP and productivity estimates
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the measurement of services within the real GNP accounts for the U.S. and the Soviet Union and found that the difference in measurement procedures create several biases in U. S. and Soviet comparisons.
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Reliability criteria for national accounts
TL;DR: In this article, the reliability of national accounts is determined by the adequacy of a great variety of data sources and estimating methods, and the authors focus on major conceptual and methodological problems, and while it does not solve the reliability problem, it provides a framework for reliability analysis and suggests criteria for the evaluation of results.