W. Erwin Diewert

Department of Economics, University of British Columbia

Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series



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List of Papers written before 1995. (Search for Diewert)

1986

86-13 (.pdf)  A Brief Survey of Duality Theory

1991

91-21 (.pdf)  Multiproduct Cost Functions and Subadditivity Tests:  A Critique of the Evans and Heckman Research on the U.S. Bell Systems

1995

95-01 (.pdf)  Axiomatic and Economic Approaches to Elementary Price Indexes

95-02 (.pdf) Price and Volume Measures in the System of National Accounts to Elementary Price Indexes

95-30:  Data Envelopment Analysis: A Practical Alternative? Revised version of this paper is available in the Other Papers section under the title: Le Chatelier Principle in Data Envelopment Analysis (with M.N.F. Mendoza)

95-31 (.pdf)  On The Stochastic Approach To Index Numbers

1996

96-06 (.pdf)  Seasonal Commodities, High Inflation and Index Number Theory

96-07 (.pdf)  Comment On CPI Biases

96-11 (.pdf)  Axiomatic and Economic Approaches to International Comparisons

1998

98-01 (.pdf)   The Deadweight Costs of Capital Taxation in Australia (with D.A. Lawrence)

98-04 (.pdf)   Can Measurement Error Explain the Productivity Paradox? (with K.J. Fox)

98-05 (.pdf)   The Measurement of Inflation and Welfare After Tax Reform (with K.J. Fox)
 

98-10 (.pdf) , Figure 1& 2(.pdf),Tables 1 and 2(.pdf)  Index Number Theory Using Differences Instead of Ratios

1999

99-17 (.pdf)   Progress in Measuring the Price and Quantity of Capital (with D.A. Lawrence)

99-19 (.pdf)   Should Canada's Rate of Capital Gains Taxation be Reduced? (with D.A. Lawrence)

2000

00-02 (.pdf)  The Consumer Price Index and Index Number Purpose

00-08(.pdf)   Notes on Producing an Annual Superlative Index Using Monthly Price Data

00-09(.pdf)   New Approaches to Public Income Support In Canada (with Alice O. Nakamura and Ging Wong)

00-10(.pdf)   Insurance for the Unemployed: Canadian Reforms and their Relevance for the United States (with Alice O. Nakamura)

00-15(.pdf)   The Quadratic Approximation Lemma and Decompositions of Superlative Indexes

00-16(.pdf)   A Characterization of the Törnqvist Price Index (with Bert M. Balk)
 

2001

01-01 (.pdf)   Additive Decompositions for Fisher, Törnqvist and Geometric Mean Indexes (with Marshall B. Reinsdorf and Christian Ehemann)

01-02 (.pdf)   The Consumer Price Index and Index Number Theory:  A Survey

01-09 (.pdf)   Who Benefits from Economic Reform:  The Contribution of Productivity, Price Changes and Firm Size to Profitability (with Denis Lawrence and Kevin Fox)

01-10 (.pdf)   Imputation and Price Indexes:  Theory and Evidence from the International Price Program (with Robert C. Feenstra)

01-11 (.pdf)   Research in Price Measurement for the Next Twenty Years

01-12 (.pdf)   Hedonic Regressions:  A Consumer Theory Approach

01-13 (.pdf)   Productivity Growth and the Role of Government

01-14 (.pdf)   The Gains from Trade and Policy Reform Revisited (with Alan D. Woodland)

01-15 (.pdf)   Productivity Trends and Determinants in Canada

01-24 (.pdf)   Measuring the Price and Quantity of Capital Services Under Alternative Assumptions
 

2002

02-05 (.pdf)   The Measurement of Aggregate Total Factor Productivity Growth (with Alice O. Nakamura)

02-10 (.pdf)   Similarity and Dissimilarity Indexes:  An Axiomatic Approach
 
02-14 (.pdf)   Hedonic Producer Price Indexes and Quality Adjustment

02-15 (.pdf)   Weighted Country Product Dummy Variable Regressions and Index Number Formulae


2003

03-08 (.pdf)   The Treatment of Owner Occupied Housing and Other Durables in a Consumer Price Index

03-09 (.pdf)   Services and the New Economy:  Data Needs and Challenges

2004

04-05 (.pdf)   A New Axiomatic Approach to Index Number Theory

04-06 (.pdf)   Time Series versus Index Number Methods of Seasonal Adjustment (with W. F. Alterman and R.C. Feenstra)

04-07 (.pdf)   The Lowe Consumer Price Index and its Substitution Bias (with Bert M. Balk)

04-09 (.pdf)   On the Estimation of Returns to Scale, Technical Progress and Monopolistic Markups (with Kevin J. Fox)

04-10 (.pdf)   Measuring Capital

04-11 (.pdf)   Issues in the Measurement of Capital Services, Depreciation, Asset Price Changes and Interest Rates

04-16 (.pdf)   On the Stochastic Approach to Linking the Regions in the ICP, presented at the Technical Advisory Group on the International Price Comparisons Project at the World Bank, Washington, DC, January, 2004

2005

05-01 (.pdf)   Index Number Theory Using Differences Rather Than Ratios

05-02 (.pdf)   On Measuring the Contribution of Entering and Exiting Firms to Aggregate Productivity Growth (with Kevin J. Fox)

05-05 (.pdf)   Productivity Perspective in Australia:  Conclusions and Future Directions

05-06 (.pdf)   The Treatment of Indirect Taxes and Margins and the Reconciliation of Industry with National Productivity Measures

05-08 (.pdf)   Transfer Prices and Import and Export Price Indexes:  Theory and Practice (with W.F. Alterman and L. Eden)

05-11 (.pdf)  Adjacent Period Dummy Variable Hedonic Regressions and Bilateral Index Number Theory

05-12 (.pdf)  On Measuring Inventory Change in Current and Constant Dollars

05-13 (.pdf)  On The Aggregation of Capital over Vintages in a Model of Embodied Technical Progress

05-22 (.pdf)  On Measuring Japan’s Productivity, 1955-2003 (with Hide Mizobuchi and Koji Nomura)

2006

06-01 (.pdf)  Does Capitalized Net Product Equal Discounted Optimal Consumption in Discrete Time? (with Paul Schreyer)

06-02 (.pdf)  Depreciation, Deterioration and Obsolescence when there is Embodied or Disembodied Technical Change (with Frank C. Wykoff)

2007

07-01 (.pdf)  The Paris OECD-IMF Workshop on Real Estate Price Indexes:  Conclusions and Future Directions

07-02 (.pdf)  Index Numbers

07-05 (.pdf)  The Ottawa Group After Ten Meetings:  Future Priorities

07-06 (.pdf)  Measuring Productivity in the System of National Accounts

07-07 (.pdf)  Hedonic Imputation versus Time Dummy Hedonic Indexes, with a commentary by Jan de Haan (with Saeed Heravi and Mick Silver)          
                                          

2008

08-03 (.pdf)  The Measurement of Nonmarket Sector Outputs and Inputs Using Cost Weights

08-04 (.pdf) Capitalizing R&D Expenditures (with Ning Huang)

08-05 (.pdf) Changes in the Terms of Trade and Canada’s Productivity Performance

08-06 (.pdf) On the Tang and Wang Decomposition of Labour Productivity Growth into Sectoral Effects

08-07 (.pdf) New Methodology for Linking the Regions

08-08 (.pdf) New Methodological Developments for the International Comparison Program

2009

09-01 (.pdf) Retrospective Price Indices and Substitution Bias (with Marco Huwiler and Ulrich Kohli)

09-02 (.pdf) Exact and Superlative Price and Quantity Indicators (with Hideyuki Mizobuchi)        
    
09-03 (.pdf) An Economic Approach to the Measurement of Productivity Growth Using Differences Instead of Ratios (with Hideyuki Mizobuchi) 

09-04 (.pdf) The Normalized Quadratic Expenditure Function (with Kevin J. Fox)   

09-05 (.pdf) Comment on Different Approaches to Index Number Theory (with Robert J. Hill)

09-06 (.pdf) Cost of Living Indexes and Exact Index Number        

09-07 (.pdf) Introduction to Price and Productivity Measurement for Housing (with Bert M. Balk and Alice O. Nakamura)

09-08 (.pdf)  Accounting for Housing in a CPI (with Alice O. Nakamura)         

09-09 (.pdf)  Scanner Data, Time Aggregation and the Construction of Price Indexes (with Lorraine Ivancic and Kevin J. Fox)                  

09-10 (.pdf) User Costs versus Waiting Services and Depreciation in a Model of Production

09-11 (.pdf) Estimation of R&D Depreciation Rates: A Suggested Methodology and Preliminary Application

2010

10-01 (.pdf) The Decomposition of a House Price Index into Land and Structures Components:  A Hedonic Regression Approach (with Jan de Haan and Rens Hendriks)


Updated:  January 29, 2010