Background
Balk, Bert M. was born on October 20, 1947 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Son of Albert J. Balk and Nel Van Esch.
(Price and quantity indices are important, much-used measu...)
Price and quantity indices are important, much-used measuring instruments, and it is therefore necessary to have a good understanding of their properties. This book is the first comprehensive text on index number theory since Irving Fisher's 1922 The Making of Index Numbers. The book covers intertemporal and interspatial comparisons; ratio- and difference-type measures; discrete and continuous time environments; and upper- and lower-level indices. Guided by economic insights, this book develops the instrumental or axiomatic approach. There is no role for behavioral assumptions. In addition to subject matter chapters, two entire chapters are devoted to the rich history of the subject.
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(Price and quantity indices are important, much-used measu...)
Price and quantity indices are important, much-used measuring instruments, and it is therefore necessary to have a good understanding of their properties. This book is the first comprehensive text on index number theory since Irving Fisher's 1922 The Making of Index Numbers. The book covers intertemporal and interspatial comparisons; ratio- and difference-type measures; discrete and continuous time environments; and upper- and lower-level indices. Guided by economic insights, this book develops the instrumental or axiomatic approach. There is no role for behavioral assumptions. In addition to subject matter chapters, two entire chapters are devoted to the rich history of the subject.
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(Industrial Price, Quantity, and Productivity Indices: The...)
Industrial Price, Quantity, and Productivity Indices: The Micro-Economic Theory and an Application gives a comprehensive account of the micro-economic foundations of industrial price, quantity, and productivity indices. The various results available from the literature have been brought together into a consistent framework, based upon modern duality theory. This integration also made it possible to generalize several of these results. Thus, this book will be an important resource for theoretically as well as empirically-oriented researchers who seek to analyse economic problems with the help of index numbers. Although this book's emphasis is on micro-economic theory, it is also intended as a practical guide. A full chapter is therefore devoted to an empirical application. Three different approaches are pursued: a straightforward empirical approach, a non-parametric estimation approach, and a parametric estimation approach. As well as illustrating some of the more important concepts explored in this book, and showing to what extent different computational approaches lead to different outcomes for the same measures, this chapter also makes a powerful case for the use of enterprise micro-data in economic research.
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Balk, Bert M. was born on October 20, 1947 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Son of Albert J. Balk and Nel Van Esch.
Doctor in Mathematics, Leyden University, The Netherlands, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1984.
Chief research section Statistics Netherlands, Voorburg, 1975—1994, deputy head price statistics, 1984—1994, senior researcher, since 1994. Professor Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands, since 2001. Lieutenant Army of the Netherlands, 1971-1972.
(Industrial Price, Quantity, and Productivity Indices: The...)
(Price and quantity indices are important, much-used measu...)
(Price and quantity indices are important, much-used measu...)
Married Afke Karssenberg. Children: Albert, Clara-Marij, Wietske, Maarten.