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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1997-06-24)This paper considers the problem of comparing real incomes across countries. The available methods are reviewed and their performance is compared using the raw data underlying the Penn World Table. The results throw light ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1996-01-18)This paper provides a centenary review of the method of calculating real incomes and purchasing power parities proposed by Roy Geary. This method is the most widely used in major international comparisons, but it is often ...
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(American Statistical Association, 2006-01)Many studies relate real nondurables and services consumption to real income and wealth, with the latter measures obtained by deflating with a price index for total consumption expenditures. This procedure is appropriate ...
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(Central Bank of Ireland, 2002-11)The existence of durable goods implies that the welfare flow from consumption cannot be directly associated with total consumption expenditures. As a result, tests of standard theories of consumption (such as the Permanent ...
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(Federal Reserve, 2000-06)In 1996, the U.S. Department of Commerce began using a new method to construct all aggregate "real" series in the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA). This method employs the so-called "ideal chain index" pioneered ...
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(Blackwell, 2002-06)In 1996, the U.S. Department of Commerce began using a new method to construct all aggregate "real" series in the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA). This method is based on the socalled "ideal chain index" pioneered ...
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(American Real Estate Society, 2008)This study examines asymmetries in real estate investment trust (REIT) returns using a variety of metrics, and compares them to several stock indexes and the U.S. long-term government bond index. The findings reveal that ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial MarketsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-10-28)Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are the only truly liquid assets related to real estate investments. We study the behavior of U.S. REITs over the past three decades and document their return characteristics. REITs ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-11-11)This paper reviews alternative approaches to measuring an economy's cost competitiveness and proposes some new measures derived from the economic theory of index numbers. The indices provide a theoretical benchmark for ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-09)Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we calculate concentration indices for the incidence of obesity for men and women. We finder higher concentration indices for women than for men, but we also find that ...