Divisia Monetary Index

Barnett, William A. (2006): Divisia Monetary Index.

Abstract

This short paper is the first draft of an encyclopedia entry on Divisia Monetary Indexes to appear in the second edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. The encyclopedia is edited by William A. Darity and forthcoming from Macmillan Reference USA (Thomson Gale).

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: monetary aggregation; index number theory; Divisia index' encyclopedia entry; aggregation theory
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E4 - Money and Interest Rates; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C4 - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics > C43 - Index Numbers and Aggregation; G - Financial Economics > G1 - General Financial Markets > G12 - Asset Pricing ; Trading Volume ; Bond Interest Rates

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Barnett, William A. and Apostolos Serletis, eds. 2000. The Theory of Monetary Aggregation. Amsterdam: North Holland.

Chrystal, Alec and Ronald MacDonald. 1994. “Empirical Evidence on the Recent Behaviour and Usefulness of Simple-Sum and Weighted Measures of the Money Stock.” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review 76 (2): 73-109.