Theory and applications of economic indices : proceedings of an international symposium held at the University of Karlsruhe, April -June 1976

An international symposium on economic indices was held at the University of Karlsruhe April, May, and June of 1976, involving participants from Belgium, Canada, Finland, Great Britain, Luxembourg,Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA. Also many participants from German universities Front Matter....Pages I-X Front Matter....Pages 1-1 What is an Economic Index ? An Attempt of an Answer....Pages 3-42 Semantics and “Object Logic” of Price Indices....Pages 43-54 On the Relationship Between Numerical Taxonomy and the Theory of Economic Indices....Pages 55-63 Front Matter....Pages 65-65 On Wald’s “New Formula” for the Cost of Living....Pages 67-107 An Extension and Alternative Proof of Gorman’s Price Aggregation Theorem....Pages 109-141 Examination of Purchasing-Power-Parity-Methods with a View to Choosing the Most Appropriate Method for a European-Community Purchasing-Power-Parity Model....Pages 143-160 Revealed Preference and the Economic Theory of Index Numbers....Pages 161-175 A Note on the Characterization of Fisher’s “Ideal Index”....Pages 177-181 Price Indices and Generalized Associativity....Pages 183-205 Economic and Atomistic Index Numbers: Contrasts and Similarities....Pages 207-243 A Note on Criteria for Price Index Systems....Pages 245-255 Basic Ideas on Stochastic Indices....Pages 257-270 Fisher’s Five Tines Fork and other Quantum Theories of Index Numbers....Pages 271-294 Divisia Indices on Different Paths....Pages 297-305 Indices of Income Inequality and Societal Income. An Axiomatic Approach....Pages 309-356 Separability and Index Properties of Ray-Homothetic Dynamic Production Structures....Pages 357-379 A System of Indices for the External Analysis of the Earning Capacity Standard and Financial Power of Industrial Joint Stock Companies....Pages 381-387 On the Sensitivity of Key Sector Indices....Pages 389-400 A Taste-Dependent True Wage Index....Pages 401-415 A Dynamic Formulation of Index Functions for the Theory of Cost and Production....Pages 417-448 On Household Production Theory....Pages 449-485 The Degree of Monopoly and Multivariable Sales Policies....Pages 487-533 Indices of Preference Inequality and the Construction of Social Preference Relations....Pages 535-561 Front Matter....Pages 563-563 Some Recent Applications of Functional Equations to Combinatorics, Probability Distributions, Information Measures and to the Theory of Index Numbers in Mathematical Economics....Pages 565-590 Neutral Changes in Tastes and Utility....Pages 591-597 Some Considerations on Related Discrete and Continuous Dynamic Economic Models....Pages 599-622 Dynamic Utility and Aggregator Functions for the Allocation of Private Consumption in Input-Output Models; An Econometric Analysis....Pages 623-655 Production Theory Dualities for Optimally Realized Values....Pages 657-666 Linear Models with Variable Coefficients....Pages 667-681 Aggregation of Substitutional Production Functions by Functional Equation Methods....Pages 683-702 On the Problem of Using Aggregate Predictions....Pages 703-717 On a Flexibility Theorem of Diewert....Pages 719-729 Back Matter....Pages 731-759