Economic Analysis of Production Price Indexes

by Franklin M. Fisher and Karl Shell

Book Overview

This work on index-number construction focuses on production indexes, including output and input deflators that can be used for constructing real output and real input. Fisher and Shell treat separately the different production units: the firm, the industry, and the economy, as well as the different forms of industrial organization: monopoly, monopsony, and competition. Only in the simplest cases is the appropriate theory isomorphic to that of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521556236
• ISBN13: 9780521556231
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"