Purchasing power parities of currencies : recent advances in methods and applications / edited by D.S. Prasada Rao.

Other author Prasada Rao, D. S.
Format Book
Publication InfoCheltenham : Edward Elgar, ©2009.
Descriptionxviii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Purchasing power parity.

Contents The compilation of purchasing power parities : the Eurostat-OECD purchasing power parity programme / David Roberts -- Aggregation methods in international comparisons : an evaluation / Bert Balk -- Generalised Eltetö-Köves-Szulc and country-product-dummy methods for international comparisons / D.S. Prasada Rao -- True international income comparisons correcting for substitution bias / Steve Dowrick -- Additivity, matrix consistency and a new method for international comparisons of real income and purchasing power parities / Itsuo Sakuma, D.S. Prasada Rao and Yoshimasa Kurabayashi -- Implicit data structures and properties of selected additive indices / James Cuthbert -- Similarity indexes and criteria for spatial linking / Erwin Diewert -- Comparing per capita income levels across countries using spanning trees : robustness, prior restrictions, hybrids and hierarchies / Robert Hill -- Chaining methods for international real product and purchasing power comparisons : issues and alternatives / Bettina Aten and Alan Heston -- Aggregation methods based on structural international prices / Sergey Sergeev -- Purchasing power parities and their policy relevance / Michael Ward -- Purchasing power parity adjustments for productivity level comparisons / Bart van Ark and Marcel Timmer -- PPPs and the price competitiveness of international tourism destinations / Larry Dwyer, Peter Forsyth and D.S. Prasada Rao.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009928593
ISBN9781845422370 (cased)
ISBN1845422376 (cased)