دانلود کتاب Price and Quantity Trends in the Foreign Trade of the United States

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Contents\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction\n1. Trends in Prices and Terms of Trade\n Summary View of U.S. Export and Import Prices and Terms of Trade\n Export and Import Prices\n U.S. Terms of Trade\n Comparison of NBER and Kreps Indexes\n International Comparisons of Terms of Trade\n Terms of Trade of Industrial Countries\n Comparisons of Terms of Trade: U.S. And Other Countries\n Prices of Primary and Manufactured Products\n Other Studies\n Evidence from NBER Data\n Price and Productivity Changes\n Relation of Foreign Trade Prices to Domestic Prices\n2. Trends in Values and Quantities\n Trends in the Ratio of Total Trade to Output\n Background of the Problem\n U.S. Trade Output Ratios\n Agricultural Trade and Output\n Background of the Prewar Agricultural Export Trade\n Trends in U.S. Exports and Output of Agricultural Products\n Trends in U.S. Agricultural Imports\n Trade in Manufactured Articles\n Price-Quantity Relations\n Prices and Quantities Within U.S. Trade\n Comparison of U.S. And Foreign Prices and Quantities\n Significance of Price-Quantity Relationships\n Summary of Main Findings\n3. NBER Indexes: Methods of Construction and Comparisons Among Them\n How the NBER Indexes Were Constructed\n Comparison of Paasche and Laspeyres Indexes\n4. Characteristics of Basic Foreign Trade Data\n Nature and Testing of Customs Data\n Comparison of Customs Data with Price Series\n Fluctuations in Prices and Unit Values\n Timing Differences Between Prices and Unit Values\n The Combination of Price and Unit-Value Data as a Source of Error\n Conclusion\n5. Sampling Characteristics and Accuracy of Index Numbers\n Sampling Problems in the Construction of Price Indexes\n A Theoretical Description of Sampling for a Price Index\n Actual Sampling Procedures in Price Index Construction\n Stratification to Minimize Selection and Nonresponse Bias\n The Measurement of the Precision of Price Indexes\n Stratification and the Measurement of Sampling Error\n Measures of Variability and Sampling Error in the NBER Indexes\n Extent of and Changes in Coverage\n Coverage in NBER Foreign Trade Indexes\n6. Comparison of NBER Indexes with Others\n U.S. Department of Commerce Indexes\n Kreps Indexes for Total Exports and Imports\n United States Department of Agriculture Index of Agricultural Export Prices\n Census Bureau Price Index for Foreign Agricultural Materials\nAppendixes\n A Indexes and Values for Total Exports and Imports and Major Classes, 1879-1960\n B Indexes and Values for Intermediate Classes, 1879-1923\n C Indexes and Values for Minor Classes, 1879-1923, and Description of Composition and Sources of Data\n D Construction of Quarterly Interpolating Series for U.S. Department of Commerce Annual Import Price Indexes\n E Data on Variability, Sampling Error, and Coverage\n F Adjustment for Changes in the U.S. Customs Area\n G Source Notes and Underlying Data for Text Charts and Tables\n H Terms of Trade and Other Price Ratios\nIndex