True Multilateral Indexex for International Comparisons of Purchasing Power and Real Income

J. Peter Neary

Working Papers from College Dublin, Department of Political Economy-

Abstract: I consider the problem of choosing index numbers of puchasing power and real income for international comparisons. I show that the desirable properties of methods based on the Fisher Ideal index do not extend to multilateral comparisons, except when tastes are homothetic.

Keywords: INCOME; EXCHANGE RATE; PRICES; ECONOMIC MODELS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 D80 F0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 1996
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