PRICE AND PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT: Volume 2 -- Seasonality. Trafford Press. 2009
W. Erwin Diewert, Bert M. Balk, Dennis Fixler, Kevin J. Fox and Alice O. Nakamura (editors)

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Dedication to Guy H. Orcutt [doc]

1. INTRODUCTION TO A VOLUME ON THE TREATMENT OF SEASONALITY IN MEASURES OF INFLATION  [doc]
Bert M. Balk, W. Erwin Diewert and Alice O Nakamura 1-4

2. METHODS FOR DEALING WITH SEASONAL PRODUCTS IN PRICE INDEXES  [doc]
W. Erwin Diewert, Paul A. Armknecht and Alice O. Nakamura  5-28

3. TIME SERIES VERSUS INDEX NUMBER METHODS FOR SEASONAL ADJUSTMENT METHODOLOGIES BASED ON A USER COST OF CAPITAL MEASURE  [doc]
W. Erwin Diewert, William F. Alterman and Robert C. Feenstra  29-52

4. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON THE TREATMENT OF SEASONAL PRODUCTS: THE ISRAELI CPI EXPERIENCE  [doc]
W. Erwin Diewert, Yoel Finkel and Yevgeny Artsev 53-78

5. THE REDESIGN OF THE CANADIAN FARM PRODUCT PRICE INDEX  [doc]
Andrew Baldwin  79-104

6. THE RECEIPTS APPROACH TO THE COLLECTION OF HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE DATA  [doc]
Rósmundur Guðnason  105-110

7. THE POSSIBLE USE OF SCANNER DATA IN DEALING WITH SEASONALITY IN THE CPI  [doc]
Peter Hein van Mulligen and May Hua Oei  111-120

8. THE TREATMENT OF SEASONALITY IN A COST-OF-LIVING INDEX: AN INTRODUCTION  [doc]
W. Erwin Diewert  121-126