W. Erwin Diewert

Department of Economics, University of British Columbia

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1971-86
1990-93
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1971-86

Choice on Labour Markets an the Theory of The Allocation of Time, Research Branch, Program Development Service, Department of Manpower and Immigration Canada, 1971, pp. 1-55.

Separability and A Generalization of the Cobb-Doublas Cost, Production and Indirect Utility Functions, Research Branch, Department of Manpower and Immigration Canada, 1973, pp. 1-44.

Applications of Duality Theory, in Frontiers of Quantitative Economics, M.D. Intrilligator and D.A. Kendrick (eds.), North-Holland Publishing Company, Vol. 11,  1974, pp. 106-208.

Exact and Superlative Index Numbers, Journal of Econometrics 4:2, June 1976, pp. 115-145.

Walras' Theory of Capital Formation and The Existence of a Temporary Equilibrium, in Equilibrium and Disequilibrium in Economic Theory, G. Schwödiauer (ed.), D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland, 1977, pp. 73-126.

Aggregation Problems in the Measurement of Capital, in The Measurement of Capital, D. Usher (ed.), University of Chicago Press, Part I (pp. 433-477) and Part II 1980, pp. 478-583.

Nine Kinds of Quasiconcavity and Concavity, (with M. Avriel and I. Zang), Journal of Economic Theory, Vol 25, No. 3, 1981, pp. 397-420.

The Theory of Total Factor Productivity Measurement In Regulated Industries, in Productivity Measurement in Regulated Industries, Tom Cowing and Rodney Stephenson (eds.), Academic Press Inc, 1981, pp. 17-44.

The Economic Theory of Index Numbers:  A Survey, in Essays in the Theory and Measurement of Consumer Behavior in Honor of Sir Richard Stone, Angus Deaton (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 1981, pp. 163-208.

Alternative Characterizations of Six Kinds of Quasiconcavity in the Nondifferentiable Case with Applications to Nonsmooth Programming, in Generalized Concavity in Optimization and Economics, editors S. Schaible and W.T. Ziemba, Academic Press, New York, 1981, pp. 51-93.

Generalized Concavity and Economics, in Generalized Concavity in Optimization and Economics, editors S. Schaible and W.T. Ziemba, Academic Press, New York, 1981, pp. 511-541.

The Comparative Dynamics of Efficient Programs of Capital Accumulation and Resource Depletion, (with Tracy R. Lewis) in Economic Theory of Natural Resources, editors W. Eichhorn, R. Henn, K.  Neumann, R.W. Shepard, Physica-Verlag, Würzburg-Wien, 1982, pp. 301-325.

The Economic Theory of Index Numbers and the Measurement of Input, Output, and Productivity, (with Douglas W. Caves, Laurits R. Christensen), in Econometrica, Vol. 50, No. 6, 1982, pp. 1393-1414.

Multilateral Comparisons of Output, Input, and Productivity Using Superlative Index Numbers, (with Douglas W. Caves and Laurits R. Christensen), in The Economic Journal, Vol. 92, 1982, pp. 73-86.

The Theory of the Output Price Index and the Measurement of Real Output Change, in Price Level Measurement, W.E. Diewert and C. Montmarquette (eds.), Ottawa, Statistics Canada, Part I (pp. 1049-1086) and Part II, 1983, pp. 1087-1113.

The Treatment of Seasonality in the Cost-of-Living Index, in Price Level Measurement, W.E. Diewert and C. Montmarquette (eds.), Ottawa, Statistics Canada, 1983, pp. 1019-1045.

The Theory of the Cost-of-Living Index and the Measurement of Welfare Change, in Price Level Measurement, W.E. Diewert and C. Montmarquette (eds.), Ottawa, Statistics Canada, pp. 163-239.

The Measurement of Waste within the Production Sector of an Open Economy, in Scand. Journal of Economics 85(2), 1983, pp. 159-179.

Linear Programming Tests of Regularity Conditions for Production Functions, (with C. Parkan), in Quantitative Studies on Production and Prices, W. Eichhorn, R. Henn, K. Neumann and R.W. Shephard (eds.), Vienna:  Physica-Verlag, pp. 131-158, 1983.

A Fundamental Matrix Equation of Production Theory with Applications to the Theory of International Trade, in Methods of Operations Research, Vol. 46, P. Stahly (ed.), Konigstein:  Verlag Anton Hain, 1983, pp. 181-194.

Sensitivity Analysis in Economics, in Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 11:2 Great Britain, 1984, pp. 141-156.

Measurement of Waste and Welfare,  in Applied General Equilibrium Models, in New Developments in Applied General Equilibrium Analysis, J. Piggot and J. Whalley, (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 42-102.

Tests for the Consistency of Consumer Data, (with C. Parkan), in Journal of Econometrics, Vol.  30, 1985, pp. 127-147.

A Note on the Neglect of New Goods Bias, NBER Productivity Workshop, Cambridge, Massachusettes, July 14, 1985.

Transfer Pricing and Economic Efficiency, in Multinationals and Transfer Pricing, A.M. Rugman and L. Eden (eds.), Croom Helm, 1985, pp. 47-81.

Microeconomic Approaches to the Theory of International Comparison, Technical Working Paper No. 53, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusettes, Part I (pp. 1-43) and Part II (pp. 44-84), 1986.

Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, in The Measurement of the Economic Benefits of Infrastructure Services, editors M. Beckmann and W. Krelle, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Part I (pp. 1-99) and Part II (pp. 100-202), 1986.

1990-93

Productivity Growth and Changes in the Terms of Trade in Japan and the United States, (with Catherine Morrison), in Productivity Growth in Japan and the United States, Chapter 7,  Charles R. Hulten (ed.), National Bureau of Economic Research, University of Chicago Press, 1990, pp. 201-227.

Performance Indicators for Regulated Industries, in Telecommunications Demand Modelling, in Contributions to Economic Analysis, Vol.  187, A. Defontenay, M.H. Shugard and D.S. Sibley (eds.), Amsterdam:  North-Holland, 1990, pp. 447-479.

The Measurement of Productivity, in Bulletin of Economic Research, Vol.  44:3, 1992, pp. 163-198.

Exact and Superlative Welfare Change Indicators, in Economic Inquiry, Vol. XXX, October 1992, pp. 565-582.

Overview of Volume 1,  in Essays in Index Number Theory, Volume 1,  Chapter 1, W.E. Diewert and A.O. Nakamura (eds.), Elsevier Science Publishers, 1993, pp. 1-37.

The Early History of Price Index Research, in Essays in Index Number Theory, Volume 1,  Chapter 2, W.E. Diewert and A.O. Nakamura (eds.), Elsevier Science Publishers, 1993, pp. 33-65.

Konüs, Alexander Alexandrovich, in Essays in Index Number Theory, in Essays in Index Number Theory, Volume 1,  Chapter 3, W.E. Diewert and A.O. Nakamura (eds.), Elsevier Science Publishers, 1993, pp. 67-69.

Laspeyres, Ernst Louis Etienne, in Essays in Index Number Theory, Volume 1,  Chapter 4, W.E. Diewert and A.O. Nakamura (eds.), Elsevier Science Publishers, 1993, pp. 69-70.

Index Numbers, in Essays in Index Number Theory, Volume 1,  Chapter 5, W.E. Diewert and A.O. Nakamura (eds.), Elsevier Science Publishers, 1993, pp. 71-108.

Symmetric Means and Choice Under Centertainty, Part I (pp. 355-389) and Part II (pp. 390-433) in Essays in Index Number Theory, Volume 1,  Chapter 14 W.E. Diewert and A.O. Nakamura (eds.), Elsevier Science Publishers, 1993. pp. 355-433.

1994-95

Productivity Measurement for a Distribution Firm, (with Ann Marie Smith), in The Journal of Productivity Analysis 5, 1994, pp. 335-347.

The Marginal Costs of Taxation in New Zealand, (with Denis A. Lawrence), report prepared for the New Zealand Business Roundtable by Swan Consultants (Canberra), Pty. Ltd., pp. 1 - 123, 1994. Part I (pp. 1 - 25), Part II (pp. 26-75), Part III (pp. 76-123).

Flexible Functional Forms and Tests of Homogeneous Separability, (with Terence J. Wales), in Journal of Econometrics 67, 1995, pp. 259-302.

Functional Form Problems in Modeling Insurance and Gambling, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory 20, 1995, pp. 135-150.

Written Testimony for the United States Senate
, Committee on Finance, April 6, 1995, pp. 1-6.

1996

The Le Chatelier Principle in Data Envelopment Analysis, Figure 1 (pdf),(with M.N.F. Mendoza), 1996, pp. 1-17.

Price and Volume Measures in the System of National Accounts, in The New System of National Accounts, John W. Kendrick (ed.), Dordrecht:  Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996, pp. 237-285.

Axiomatic and Economic Approaches to International Comparisons, NBER Working Paper 5559, Cambridge, April 1996, pp. 1 -81.

1997

Benchmarking and the Measurement of Best Practice Efficiency:  Evidence from Electricity Generation, (with Alice Nakamura), Centre for the Study of Living Standards - CSLS Conference on Service Sector Productivity and the Productivity Paradox, Ottawa,  April 1997, pp. 1-34.

Commentary,Review, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis,1997, pp. 127-138.

1998

The Measurement of Inflation after Tax Reform, (with Kevin J. Fox), Economics Letters 61, 1998, pp. 279-284.

The Productivity Paradox and Mismeasurement of Economic Activity,(with Kevin J. Fox), forthcoming in Monetary Policy in a World of Knowledge-based Growth, Quality Change, and Uncertain Measurement, MacMillan Press: London. Also published as IMES Discussion Paper No. 98-E-15, Bank of Japan.

A "New" Approach to the Smoothing Problem, (with Terence J. Wales), 1998.

High Inflation, Seasonal Commodities, and Annual Index Numbers, in Macroeconomic Dynamics 2, 1998, pp. 456-471.

Index Number Issues in the Consumer Price Index, Journal of Economic Perspectives 12, Number 1, 1998, pp. 47-58.

1999

Can Measurement Error Explain the Productivity Paradox?, (with Kevin J. Fox), Canadian Journal of Economics 32, pp. 251-280.

Is the Asia-Pacific Region Different? Technical Progress Bias and Price Elasticity Estimates for 18 OECD Countries, 1960-1992, (with Kevin J. Fox), in Economic Efficiency and Productivity Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region,T-T. Fu, C.J. Huang and C.A.K. Lovell (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999,  pp. 125-144.

Measuring New Zealand's Productivity, (with Denis Lawrence), New Zealand Treasury Working Paper 99/5, March 1999.

The Alcohol Excise:  A Review, (with Denise Ironfield and Denis Lawrence), Beer Wine & Spirits Council of New Zealand, Wine Institute of New Zealand, Inc. and Distilled Spirits Association of New Zealand, June 1999, pp. 1 - 76.

Axiomatic and Economic Approaches to International Comparison?,  in International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices, Alan Heston and Robert E. Lipsey (eds.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 13-87, 1999.  Appendix A & B, and References & Comment.

Index Number Approaches to Seasonal Adjustment, in Macroeconomic Dynamics 3, 1999, pp. 48-68.

Benchmarking and the Measurement of Best Practice Efficiency:  An Electricity Generation Application, (with Alice O. Nakamura), in Canadian Journal of Economics 32:2, 1999, pp. 570-588.

Introduction and Overview, (with A.O. Nakamura and A. Sharpe), in Canadian Journal of Economics 33:2, April 1999, pp. 3-15.

2000

Incentive Indexes for Regulated Industries, (with Kevin J. Fox), forthcoming in Journal of Regulatory Economics.

Preface to the Theory of Monetary Aggregation, by William Barnett and co-authors, forthcoming North Holland, 2000.

Productivity Measurement Using Differences Rather Than Ratios: A Note, University of New South Wales Working Paper, January, 2000.

New Measures of the Excess Burden of Capital Taxation in Canada, (with Denis A. Lawrence), presented at the Creating Canada's Advantage in an Information Conference, Ottawa, May, 2000.

Progress in Measuring the Price and Quantity of Capital, (with Denis A. Lawrence) in Econometrics, Volume 2, Econometrics and the Cost of Capital, edited by Lawrence J. Lau,  MIT Press:  Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000, pp. 273-326.

2001

A Characterization of the Törnqvist Price Index, (with Bert M. Balk), Economic Letters 72, Elsevier Science, 2001,  pp. 279-281.

The Productivity Paradox and Mismeasurement of Economics Activity, (with Kevin J. Fox), in Monetary Policy in a World of Knowledge-Based Growth, Quality Change and Uncertain Measurement, Kunio Okina and Tetsuya Inoue (eds.), New York, Palgrave, 2001, pp. 175-197.

The Consumer Price Index and Index Number Purpose, Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 27, 2001, pp. 167-248.

Commentary on "Research on Price Index Measurement:  Agendas for the Next Twenty Years", in Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 27, 2001, pp. 105-116.

Which (Old) Ideas on Productivity Measurement are Ready to Use?  in New Developments in Productivity Analysis, Charles R. Hulten, Edwin R. Dean and Michael J. Harper (eds.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp. 85-101.

2002

Harmonized Indexes of Consumer Prices:  Their Conceptual Foundations, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 138, pp. 547-637.

Productivity Trends and Determinants in Canada, in Productivity Issues in Canada, The Industry Canada Research Series, Someshwar Rao and Andrew Sharpe (eds.), Univeristy of Calgary Press, 2002, pp. 31-57.

Additive Decompositions for Fisher Törnqvist and Geometric Mean Indexes
, (with Marshall B. Reinsdorf and Christian Ehemann), Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 28, 2002, pp. 51-61.  

The Quadratic Approximation Lemma and Decompositions of Superlative Indexes, Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 28, 2002, pp. 63-88.

The Deadweight Costs of Capital Taxation in Australia, (with Denis Lawrence), in Efficiency in the Public Sector, edited by Kevin J. Fox, Kluwer Academic Press, 2002, pp. 103-167.

2003

Index Number Concepts, Measures and Decompositions of Productivity Growth, (with Alice O. Nakamura), Journal of Productivity Analysis, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 2003, pp. 127-159.

The Gains from Trade and Policy Reform Revisited, (with Alan D. Woodland), forthcoming in Review of International Economics, March 2003, 27 pp.

Hedonic Regressions: A Consumer Theory Approach, Scanner Data and Price Indexes, Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, Volume 64, Robert C. Feenstra and Matthew D. Shapiro (eds.), National Bureau of Economic Research, The University of Chicago Press, 2003, pp. 317-348.

On the Subadditivity of Cost Functions, Traditional Telecommunications Networks, The International Handbook of Telecommunications Economics, Volume 1, Gary Madden (ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003, pp. 1-73.

Preface to Functional Structure and Approximation in Econometrics, William A. Barnett and Jane Binner, (eds.), North-Holland Publishing, October, 2003, 12 pp.

Services and the New Economy:  Data Needs and Challenges, paper presented at Services Industries and the Knowledge Based Economy, Industry Canada Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba, October, 2003, 28 pp.

Basic Index Number Theory:  Chapter 15 of Consumer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice, International Labour Organization, Geneva, forthcoming, 49 pp.

The Axiomatic and Stochastic Approaches to Index Number Theory:  Chapter 16 of Consumer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice, International Labour Organization, Geneva, forthcoming, 45 pp.

The Economic Approach to Index Number Theory: The Single Household Case:  Chapter 17 of Consumer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice, International Labour Organization, Geneva, forthcoming, 43 pp.

The Economic Approach to Index Number Theory: The Many Household Case:  Chapter 18 of Consumer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice, International Labour Organization, Geneva, forthcoming, 15 pp.

Price Indices Using an Artificial Data Set:  Chapter 19 of Consumer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice, International Labour Organization, Geneva, forthcoming, 16 pp.

Elementary Indices:  Chapter 20 of Consumer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice, International Labour Organization, Geneva, forthcoming, 33 pp.

The Treatment of Seasonal Products:  Chapter 22 of Consumer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice, International Labour Organization, Geneva, forthcoming, 50 pp.

Methodological Problems with the Consumer Price Index, presented at the joing UNECE/ILO Meeting on Consumer Price Indices, held at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, December, 2003.

Hedonic Regressions: A Review of Some Unresolved Issues, Proceedings of the 7th Meeting of the Ottawa Group, Paris, May 27-29, 43 pp.

2004

Notes 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

Why We Need a Return to Experience Rating in EI, (with A.O. Nakamura), Fraser Forum, Feburary 2004, pp. 10-12.

Index Number Theory: Past Progress and Future Challenges, presented at the SSHRC Conference on Price Index Concepts and Measurement, Vancouver, Canada, June 30-July 3, 2004, 33 pp.

Measuring Output and Productivity in Electricity Networks
, (with Denis Lawrence), presented at the SSHRC Conference on Index Number Theory and the Measurement of Prices and Productivity, Vancouver, Canada, June 30-July 3, 2004, 49 pp.

On the Treatment of Seasonal Commodities in CPI:  The Israeli Experience, part I, part II and part III (with Yoel Finkel and Yevgeny Artsev), presented at the SSHRC Conference on Price Index Concepts and Measurement, Vancouver, Canada, June 30-July 3, 2004.

Measurement Problems in Regulation, (with Denis Lawrence), presented at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Melbourne, July 2004 (presentation file), 15 pp.

Regulating Electricity Networks:  The ABC of Setting X in New Zealand, (with Denis Lawrence), presented at the Asia Pacific Productivity Center, Brisbane, July 2004, 48 pp.

Theories of Productivity Growth and the Role of Government in Facilitating Productivity Growth, paper presented the New Zealand Treasury Workshop: Toward Higher Productivity Growth in New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, July 2004, 29 pp.

A Note on the Cost Allocation Problem for R&D Investments, August 2004, 13 pp.

A Note on the Effects of a Real Interest Rate Increase on Asset Lives, August 2004, 4 pp.

The Gains from Trade and Policy Reform Revisisted, (with Alan D. Woodland), Review of International Economics 12(4), 2004, pp. 591-608.

The Relationship of Academic Measurement Research and Official Statistics, presented at the 23rd Meeting of Nordic Statisticians, Turku, Finland, August 20, 2004, 33pp.

The Contributions of Productivity, Price Changes and Firm Size to Profitability, (with Denis Lawrence and Kevin J. Fox), forthcoming in Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2004, 32 pp.

Similarity Indexes and Criteria for Spatial Linking, forthcoming as Chapter 8 in Purchasing Power Parities of Currencies: Recent Advances in Methods and Applications, D.S. Prasada Rao (ed.), Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 2005, 21 pp.

A Note on the Treatment of Inventory Change, presented Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra, Australia, December 2004, 22 pp. 

2005

Comment on “Aggregation Issues in Integrating and Accelerating BEA’s Accounts: Improved Methods for Calculating GDP by Industry” by Brian Moyer, Marshall Reinsdorf and Robert Yuskavage, paper presented at the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth (CRIW), A New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts, D.W. Jorgenson, J.S. Landefeld and W.D. Nordhaus (eds.), Washington D.C., April 16-17, 2004, 18 pages.

The New Economy and an Old Problem:  Net versus Gross Output, (with Kevin J. Fox), Center for Applied Economic Research Working Paper 2005/02, University of New South Wales, January 2005, 39 pages.

Concepts and Measures of Productivity:  An Introduction, (with Alice O. Nakamura), forthcoming as Chapter 2 in Services Industries and the Knowledge Based Economy, R. Lipsey and A.O. Nakamura (eds.), Calgary:  University of Calgary Press, 2005, pp. 20.

Malmquist and Tornqvist Productivity Indexes:  Returns to Scale and Technical Progress With Imperfect Competition, (with Kevin J. Fox), Center for Applied Economic Research Working Paper 2005/03, University of New South Wales, April 2005, 13 pages.

A "New" Approach to the Smoothing Problem, (with T.J. Wales), in Money, Measurement and Computation,  M.T. Belongia and J.M. Binner (eds.), New York, Palgrave MacMillanm, 2005, pp. 104-144.

Identifying Important Areas for Future Price Work at the International Level, paper presented at the OECD Paris Workshop on Inflation Measures: Too High, Too Low, Internationally Comparable?, June 21-22, 2005, 9 pages.

Summary of the Roundtable on the Upcoming Revision to the UN System of National Accounts, (with Charles Hulten), National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute 2005, Conference on Research on Income and Wealth Workshop, Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 25, 2005, 18 pages.

A Note on Schreyer’s Model for Depreciation and Welfare, August, 2005, 9 pages.

The Role of ICT in Australia's Economic Performance:  Investigating the Assumptions Influencing Productivity Estimates, (with Denis Lawrence), OECD Workshop, October 3, 2005, 29 pages.

Weighted Country Product Dummy Variable Regressions and Index Number Formulae, Review of Income and Wealth, Series 51, Number 4, December 2005, pp. 561-571.

Productivity, the Terms of Trade and Australian Welfare: 1960-2004, (with Denis Lawrence), presented at the Productivity Commission, Canberra, Australia, December 2005, 23 pages.   

Progress in Service Sector Productivity Measurement:  Review Article on Productivity in the U.S. Services Sector:  New Sources of Economic Growth by Jack E. Triplett and Barry P. Bosworth, International Productivity Monitor,  Volume 11, Center for the Study of Living Standards, Fall 2005, pp. 57-69.

The Measurement of Business Capital, Income and Performance, Tutorial presented at the University Autonoma of Barcelona, Spain, September 21-22, 2005.
Introduction - The Measurement of Business Capital, Income and Performance
Chapter 1 -  The Measurement of Capital: Traditional User Cost Approaches
Chapter 2 - Capital and Accounting Theory: The Early History
Chapter 3 - Accounting Theory and Alternative Methods for Asset Valuation
Chapter 4 - Constructing a Capital Stock for R&D Investments
Chapter 5 - Constructing a Capital Stock for Inventories and the Measurement of Inventory Change
Chapter 6 - The Aggregation of Capital over Vintages in a Model of Embodied Technical Progress
Chapter 7 - The Measurement of Income
Chapter 8 - The Measurement of Performance: Productivity versus the Real Rate of Return
Chapter 9 - Benchmarking and the Nonparametric Approach to Performance Measurement

The Role of ICT in Australia's Economic Performance, (with Denis Lawrence), Chapter 3, in ICT and Australian Productivity: Methodologies and Measurement, Occasional Economic Paper, Canberra: Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Australian Government, November 2005, pp. 56-93.

Estimating Aggregate Productivity Growth for Australia: The Role of Information and  Communiciations Technology, (with Denis Lawrence), Occasional Economic Paper, Canberra: Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Australian Government, September 2005, 83 pages.  

2006

The Measurement of Capital, (with Paul Schreyer), draft entry to the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Version 1, January 2006, 8 pp.

Comment on "The Choice of Exchange Rate on Modelling the Impact of Climate Change:  A Response to the Castles-Henderson Critique of the IPCC" by John Quiggin, March 2006, 8 pp.

Measuring the Contributions of Productivity and the Terms of Trade to Australian Economic Welfare, (with Denis Lawerence), paper presented to Productivity Perspectives 2006, Canberra, Australia, March 2006, 30 pp.

Measuring the Contributions of Productivity and Terms of Trade to Australia's Economic Welfare, (with Denis Lawrence),  Report prepared for the Productivity Commission, Australian Government, Canberra, March 2006, 114 pp.

The Measurement of Income, Center for Applied Economic Research Working Paper, 2006/1, University of New South Wales, 27 pp.

The Contributions of Productivity, Price Changes and Firm Size to Profitability, (with Kevin J. Fox and Denis Lawrence), Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2006, 13 pp.

Regulating Electricity Networks: The ABC of Setting X in New Zealand, (with D. Lawrence), Chapter 8 in Performance Measurement and Regulation of Network Utilities, T. Coelli and D. Lawrence (eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, pp. 207-241.

The Berne OECD Workshop on Productivity Analysis and Measurement:  Conclusions and Future Directions, this paper is an extended written version of Diewert's Panel Discussion at the final session of the OECD Workshop on Productivity Analysis and Measurement organized jointly with the Swiss Federal Statistical Office and the State Secretary for Economic Affairs of Switzerland held in Berne, Switzerland, October 16-18, 2006, pp. 26.

The Reconciliation of Industry Productivity Measures with National Measures: An Exact Translog Approach, (with Denis Lawrence), at the Sixth International Economic Measurement Workshop, December 13-16, 2006, Coogee Bay Hotel, Coogee, Australia.

The Measurement of Productivity in Australia: Results and Measurement Problems, powerpoint presentation at the Treasury, Government of Australia, Canberra, Australia, December 18, 2006.

Measuring Productivity and the Role of ICT in Australias, Economic Performance, presentation (with Denis Lawrence), at the DCITA (Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts) Workshop on ICT, Australian Government, Canberra, Australia, December 19, 2006.

Adjacent Period Dummy Variable Hedonic Regressions and Bilateral Index Number Theory
, Annales D'Economie et de Statistique, No. 79/80, 2006, 28 pp.

A ‘New’ Approach to the Smoothing Problem, (with Terence J. Wales), in Money, Measurement and Computation, Michael T. Belongia and Jane M. Binner (eds.), New York, Palgrave, MacMillan, 2006, pp. 104-144.

2007

Index Numbers, forthcoming in the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, 38pp.

On Measuring the Contribution of Entering and Exiting Firms to Aggregate Productivity Growth, (with Kevin J. Fox), forthcoming in Price and Productivity Measurement, W. Erwin Diewert, Bert M. Balk, Dennis Fixler, Kevin J. Fox and Alice O. Nakamura (eds.), Trafford Press, July 13, 2007, pp. 26.

The Economic Approach, forthcoming in Chapter 17 of Export Import Price Index Manual, preliminary draft, May 2007, The International Monetary Fund, pp. 70.
 
Price Indices Using an Artificial Data Set, forthcoming in Chapter 19 of Export Import Price Index Manual, preliminary draft, May 2007, The International Monetary Fund, pp. 41.

The Measurement of Productivity For Nations, (with Alice O. Nakamura), Chapter 66 of Handbook of Econometrics, Volume 6A, Elsevier B.V., 2007, pp. 4501-4571.

Hedonic Imputation versus Time Dummy Hedonic Indexes, (with Saeed Heravi and Mick Silver), International Monetary Fund, IMF Working Paper WP07/234, pp. 38.

Services and the Treatment of International Trade: New Economy Data Needs and Challenges, paper presented at the International Conference on Total Factor Productivity Based on the KLEMS Industrial Database held on October 24, 2007 at the Korea Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Seoul, Korea, pp18.

The Le Chatelier Principle in Data Envelopment Analysis, in Aggregation, Efficiency, and Measurement, Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, and Daniel Primont (eds.), Springer (with Nimfa F. Mendoza), (2007), pp. 63-82.

2008

What Is To be Done For Better Productivity Measurement, in International Productivity Monitor, Number 16, Spring 2008, pp. 40-52.

Measuring the Effects of Changes in the Terms of Trade, Chapter 24 of the Export and Import Price Index Manual, International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C., forthcoming 2008, pp. 37.

New Methodology for Linking Regional PPPs, in ICP (International Comparison Program) Bulletin, Volume 5, No. 2, August 2008, pp. 1, 10-22 and 45.

New Methodological Developments for the International Comparison Program at the Tinbergen Institute, Rotterdam University, October 3, 2008.

Changes in the Terms of Trade and the Productivity Performance of Canada and the Netherlands at the Workshop on Index Number Theory at the Tinbergen Institute, University of Amsterdam, October 9-10, 2008.

OECD Workshops on Productivity Analysis and Measurement:  Conclusions and Future Directions
, forthcoming in Chapter 1 of the Proceedings from the OECD Workshops on Productivity Measurement and Analysis, OECD, Paris, France, 2008, pp. 11-36.

2009

On Measuring the Productivity and the Standard of Living in Japan, 1955-2006, (with Hideyuki Mizobuchi and Koji Nomura), KEO Discussion Paper No. 115, Keio Economic Observatory, Tokyo, Japan February 2009, pp. 52.

The Aggregation of Capital over Vintages in a Model of Embodied Technical Progress, the paper is a revised version of the UBC Department of Economics Discussion Paper 05-13 and is forthcoming in the Journal of Productivity Analysis, pp. 32.

Asset Valuation and Productivity-Based Regulation Taking Account of Sunk Costs and Financial Capital Maintenance, (with Denis Lawrence and John Fallon), Economic Insights, Report Prepared for Commerce Commission, Government of New Zealand, Wellington NZ, 2009, pp. 64.

The Theory of Network Regulation in the Presence of Sunk Costs, (with Denis Lawrence and John Fallon), Economic Insights, Report Prepared for Commerce Commission, Government of New Zealand, Wellington NZ, 2009, pp. 93. (Revised: August 5, 2009)

Retrospective Price Indices and Substitution Bias, (with Marco Huwiler and Ulrich Kohli), Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 145(20), 2009, pp. 127-135.

Electricity Distribution Industry Productivity Analysis:  1996-2008, (with Denis Lawrence, John Fallan and John Kain), Economic Insights, Report Prepared for Commerce Commission, Government of New Zealand, Wellington NZ, 2009, pp. 84.
 
 

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