Measurement in economics
Subtitle: studies in mathematical economics and econometrics in memory of Yehuda Grunfeld
By: by Carl F. Christ [and others]
Contributors: Christ, Carl F.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Economics, Mathematical.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Yehuda Grunfeld: in memoriam.; title: Bibliography of Yehuda Grunfeld (p. xiii-xiv); title: Theory and measurement of consumption: Windfalls, the "horizon," and related concepts in the permanent-income hypothesis, by M. Friedman. Tests of the permanent-income hypothesis based on a reinterview savings survey, by N. Liviatan. Market prices, opportunity costs, and income effects, by J. Mincer. Demand curves and consumer's surplus, by D. Patinkin.; title: Theory and measurement of production: Capital stock in investment functions: some problems of concept and measurement, by Z. Griliches. Estimation of production and behavioral functions from a combination of cross-section and time-series data, by Y. Mundlak. Returns to scale in electricity supply, by M. Nerlove.; title: Theory and measurement of monetary phenomena: Interest rates and "portfolio selection" among liquid assets in the U.S., by C. F. Christ. The dynamics of inflation in Chile, by A. C. Harberger.; title: Econometric methodology: Tests based on the movements in and the comovements between m-dependent time series, by L. A. Goodman. Least-squares estimates of transition probabilities, by L. G. Telser. On the specification of multivariate relations among survey data, by H. Theil.