Hard-to-Measure Goods and Services: Essays in Honor of Zvi Griliches

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Hard-to-Measure Goods and Services: Essays in Honor of Zvi Griliches

Ernst R. Berndt and Charles R. Hulten

Abstract

The celebrated economist Zvi Griliches's entire career can be viewed as an attempt to advance the cause of accuracy in economic measurement. His interest in the causes and consequences of technical progress led to his pathbreaking work on price hedonics, now the principal analytical technique available to account for changes in product quality. This book, a collection of papers from a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conference held in Griliches's honor, is a tribute to his many contributions to current economic thought. Here, scholars of economic measurement address issues in the a ... More

Keywords: Zvi Griliches, accuracy, economic measurement, technical progress, price hedonics, product quality, NBER conference, new technologies, productivity, capital measurement

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2007	Print ISBN-13: 9780226044491
Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: February 2013	DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226044507.001.0001

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Ernst R. Berndt, editor

Charles R. Hulten, editor

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I Context and Prologue

Introduction

Ernst R. Berndt and Charles R. Hulten

1 Theory and Measurement

Charles R. Hulten

II Classic Input Measurement Issues Revisited

2 Production Function and Wage Equation Estimation with Heterogeneous Labor

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Hard-to-Measure Goods and Services: Essays in Honor of Zvi Griliches

Ernst R. Berndt and Charles R. Hulten

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Bibliographic Information

Authors

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Contents

Front Matter

I Context and Prologue

Ernst R. Berndt and Charles R. Hulten

Charles R. Hulten

II Classic Input Measurement Issues Revisited

Judith K. Hellerstein and David Neumark

Harley Frazis and Jay Stewart

Michael J. Harper

Michael J. Geske, Valerie A. Ramey, and Matthew D. Shapiro

III Quality Adjustment and Price Measurement Issues Recent Developments

Robert J. Gordon and Todd vanGoethem

Greg Stranger and Shane Greenstein

Saeed Heravi and Mick Silver

Jaison R. Abel, Ernst R. Berndt, and Alan G. White

Sean M. Dougherty, Robert Inklaar, Robert H. McGuckin, and Bart van Ark

IV Information Technology and the Acceleration of Productivity Growth

Dale W. Jorgenson

Ana Aizcorbe, Kenneth Flamm, and Anjum Khurshid

B. K. Atrostic and Sang Nguyen

V Measuring and Modeling Productivity, Consumption, and Diffusion

Barry P. Bosworth and Jack E. Triplett

Eric J. Bartelsman and J. Joseph Beaulieu

Robert C. Feenstra and Marshall B. Reinsdorf

Orazio Attanasio, Erich Battistin, and Hidehiko Ichimura

Jonathan Skinner and Douglas Staiger

VI Epilogue

Jack E. Triplett

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