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

Ernst R. Berndt and Charles R. Hulten, editors

Conference held September 19-20, 2003
Published in October 2007 by University of Chicago Press

More information on acquiring this book
ISBN: 0-226-04449-1; ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04449-1

Table of Contents

Prefatory Note and Acknowledgement:

Introduction: Ernst R. Berndt, Charles R. Hulten

1. Theory and Measurement: An Essay in Honor of Zvi Griliches: Charles R. Hulten

2. Production Function and Wage Equation Estimation with Heterogeneous Labor: Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set: Judith K. Hellerstein, David Neumark

3. Where Does the Time Go? Concepts and Measurement in the American Time Use Survey: Harley Frazis, Jay Stewart

4. Technology and the Theory of Vintage Aggregation: Michael J. Harper

5. Why Do Computers Depreciate? : Michael J. Geske, Valerie A. Ramey, Matthew D. Shapiro

6. Downward Bias in the Most Important CPI Component: The Case of Rental Shelter, 1914-2003: Robert J. Gordon, Todd vanGoethem

7. Pricing at the On-Ramp to the Internet: Price Indexes for ISPs during the 1990s: Greg Stranger, Shane Greenstein

8. Different Approaches to Estimating Hedonic Indexes: Saeed Heravi, Mick Silver

9. Price Indexes for Microsoft: Jaison R. Abel, Ernst R. Berndt, Alan G. White

10. International Comparisons of R&D Expenditure: Does an R&D PPP Make a Difference?: Sean M. Dougherty, Robert Inklaar, Robert H. McGuckin, Bart van Ark

11. Information Technology and the G7 Economies: Dale W. Jorgenson

12. The Role of Semiconductor Inputs in IT Hardware Price Decline: Computers versus Communications: Ana Aizcorbe, Kenneth Flamm, Anjum Khurshid

13. Computer Input, Computer Networks, and Productivity: B. K. Atrostic, Sang Nguyen

14. Services Productivity in the United States: Griliches: Barry P. Bosworth, Jack E. Triplett

15. A Consistent Accounting of U.S. Productivity Growth: Eric J. Bartelsman, J. Joseph Beaulieu

16. Should Exact Index Numbers Have Standard Errors? Theory and Application to Asian Growth: Robert C. Feenstra, Marshall B. Reinsdorf (bibliographic info)

17. What Really Happened to Consumption Inequality in the United States?: Orazio Attanasio, Erich Battistin, Hidehiko Ichimura

18. Technology Adoption from Hybrid Corn to Beta-Blockers: Jonathan Skinner, Douglas Staiger

19. Zvi Griliches: Jack E. Triplett

 

 
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