Hard-to-measure goods and services
Subtitle: essays in honor of Zvi Griliches
By: edited by Ernst R. Berndt and Charles R. Hulten
Contributors: Berndt, Ernst R; Hulten, Charles R
Series: Studies in income and wealth -- v. 67
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 606
ISBN-13: 9780226044491
Subjects: Griliches, Zvi, -- 1930-; Econometrics -- Congresses; Income distribution -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Description: This collection of papers from a conference held in honour of the economist Zvi Griliches is a tribute to his many contributions to current economic thought. Here, scholars of economic measurement address issues in the areas of productivity, price hedonics, capital measurement, diffusion of new technologies, and output and price measurement in 'hard-to-measure' sectors of the economy. The book furthers Griliches's vital work that changed the way economists think about the U.S. National Income and Product Accounts.
Notes: Conference proceedings

Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: Theory and measurement : an essay in honor of Zvi Griliches / Charles R. Hulten; title: Production function and wage equation estimation with heterogeneous labor : evidence from a new matched employer-employee data set / Judith Hellerstein and David Neumark; title: Where does the time go? : concepts and measurement in the American time; title: Use survey / Harley Frazis and Jay Stewart; title: Technology and the theory of Vintage Aggregation / Michael J. Harper; title: Why do computers depreciate? / Michael J. Geske, Valerie A. Ramey, and Matthew D. Shapiro; title: Downward bias in the most important CPI component / Robert J. Gordon and Todd vanGoethem; title: Pricing at the on-ramp to the internet : price indices for ISPs during the 1990s / Greg Stranger and Shane Greenstein; title: Different approaches to estimating Hedonic indexes / Saeed Heravi and Mick Silver; title: Price indexes for microsoft's personal computer software products / Jaison R. Abel, Ernst R. Berndt, and Alan G. White; title: 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; title: Information technology and the G7 economies / Dale W. Jorgenson; title: The role of semiconductor inputs in it hardware price decline : computers vs. communications / Ana Aizcorbe, Kenneth Flamm, and Anjum Khurshid; title: Computer input, computer networks, and productivity / B. K. Atrostic and Sang Nguyen; title: Services productivity in the United States : Griliches' services volume revisited / Barry P. Bosworth and Jack E. Triplett; title: A consistent accounting of U.S. productivity growth / Eric J. Bartelsman and J. Joseph Beaulieu; title: Should exact index numbers have standard errors? : theory and application to Asian growth / Robert C. Feenstra and Marshall B. Reinsdorf; title: What really happened to consumption inequality in the U.S.? / Orazio Attanasio, Erich Battistin, and Hidehiko Ichimura; title: Technology adoption from hybrid corn to beta blockers / Jonathan Skinner and Douglas Staiger