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According to Wikipedia, Walter Erwin Diewert is a Canadian economist. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He completed a B.A. degree in 1963, and an M.A. in mathematics in 1964, both at the University of British Columbia. He completed a Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley in 1968. He is a professor of economics at the University of British Columbia, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1970, and also has a joint appointment at the University of New South Wales. He is also a Vice President of the Society for Economic Measurement .

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THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF INDEX NUMBERS AND THE MEASUREMENT OF INPUT, OUTPUT, AND PRODUCTIVITY (1982) (3644)
Exact and superlative index numbers (1976) (2353)
MULTILATERAL COMPARISONS OF OUTPUT, INPUT, AND PRODUCTIVITY USING SUPERLATIVE INDEX NUMBERS* (1982) (1705)
An Application of the Shephard Duality Theorem: A Generalized Leontief Production Function (1971) (1139)
Flexible Functional Forms and Global Curvature Conditions (1989) (1113)
INTRODUCTION TO MEASUREMENT WITH THEORY (2009) (765)
Superlative Index Numbers and Consistency in Aggregation (1978) (587)
Applications of Duality Theory (1974) (492)
Fisher ideal output, input, and productivity indexes revisited (1992) (480)
Functional forms for profit and transformation functions (1973) (426)
Duality approaches to microeconomic theory (1993) (349)
Afriat and Revealed Preference Theory (1973) (340)
Aggregation Problems in the Measurement of Capital (1980) (327)
Essays in The theory and measurement of consumer behaviour in honour of Sir Richard Stone : The economic theory of index numbers: a survey (1981) (303)
Adjusting Output and Productivity Indexes for Changes in the Terms of Trade (1985) (299)
The decomposition of frontier cost function deviations into measures of technical and allocative efficiency (1982) (239)
Index Number Issues in the Consumer Price Index (1998) (209)
Intertemporal Consumer Theory and the Demand for Durables (1974) (196)
Functional Forms for Revenue and Factor Requirements Functions (1974) (192)
Linear Programming Tests of Regularity Conditions for Production Functions (1983) (183)
Axiomatic and Economic Approaches to Elementary Price Indexes (1995) (181)
Scanner data, time aggregation and the construction of price indexes (2011) (178)
THE MEASUREMENT OF PRODUCTIVITY (1992) (175)
Hedonic Regressions. A Consumer Theory Approach (2003) (173)
The Early History of Price Index Research (1988) (164)
Flexible Functional Forms and Expenditure Distributions: An Application to Canadian Consumer Demand Functions (1977) (153)
On the estimation of returns to scale, technical progress and monopolistic markups (2008) (151)
Index Number Theory Using Differences Rather Than Ratios (2005) (148)
A normalized quadratic semiflexible functional form (1988) (146)
Nine kinds of quasiconcavity and concavity (1981) (143)
Axiomatic and Economic Approaches to International Comparisons (1996) (140)
Weighted Country Product Dummy Variable Regressions and Index Number Formulae (2005) (134)
Harmonized Indexes of Consumer Prices: Their Conceptual Foundations (2002) (131)
Can measurement error explain the productivity paradox (1999) (129)
Normalized Quadratic Systems of Consumer Demand Functions (1988) (122)
4. Application of Generalized Concavity to Economics (1988) (120)
Quadratic Spline Models for Producer's Supply and Demand Functions (1992) (111)
The Theory of the Cost-of-Living Index and the Measurement of Welfare Change (1990) (106)
Essays in Index Number Theory (1993) (106)
Direct versus Implicit Superlative Index Number Formulae (1981) (104)
Issues in the Measurement of Capital Services, Depreciation, Asset Price Changes, and Interest Rates (2005) (100)
Index Number Concepts, Measures and Decompositions of Productivity Growth (2003) (98)
THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX AND INDEX NUMBER PURPOSE (2001) (94)
Productivity- and Pareto-Improving Changes in Taxes and Tariffs (1989) (88)
Hick's Aggregation Theorem and the Existence of a Real Value Added Function (1978) (86)
Optimal tax perturbations (1978) (85)
The Measurement of the Economic Benefits of Infrastructure Services (1986) (85)
Flexible functional forms and tests of homogeneous separability (1995) (83)
Tests for the consistency of consumer data (1985) (82)
Hedonic Regressions and the Decomposition of a House Price Index into Land and Structure Components (2015) (79)
EXPENDITURE FUNCTIONS, LOCAL DUALITY, AND SECOND ORDER APPROXIMATIONS' (1979) (79)
Frank Knight's Theorem in Linear Programming Revisited (1977) (78)
Hedonic Imputation Versus Time Dummy Hedonic Indexes (2007) (78)
Capital and the Theory of Productivity Measurement (2016) (76)
The housing bubble and a new approach to accounting for housing in a CPI (2009) (75)
Export Supply and Import Demand Functions: a Production Theory Approach (1986) (73)
MEASUREMENT OF INPUT, OUTPUT, AND PRODUCTIVITY (1982) (73)
EXACT AND SUPERLATIVE WELFARE CHANGE INDICATORS (1992) (72)
The quadratic approximation lemma and decompositions of superlative indexes (2002) (71)
On Measuring the Contribution of Entering and Exiting Firms to Aggregate Productivity Growth (2005) (67)
The Measurement of Waste within the Production Sector of an Open Economy (1983) (67)
Generalized slutsky conditions for aggregate consumer demand functions (1977) (65)
Additive decompositions for Fisher, Törnqvist and geometric mean indexes (2002) (64)
Accounting for Housing in a CPI (2009) (62)
Cost-benefit analysis and project evaluation: A comparison of alternative approaches (1983) (61)
Productivity Measurement for a Distribution Firm (1994) (55)
Walras’ Theory of Capital Formation and the Existence of a Temporary Equilibrium (1977) (55)
The Decomposition of a House Price Index into Land and Structures Components: A Hedonic Regression Approach (2010) (52)
Decomposing productivity indexes into explanatory factors (2017) (52)
The Comparative Statics of Industry Long-Run Equilibrium (1981) (50)
Price level measurement (1990) (50)
Measuring industry productivity and cross-country convergence (2016) (50)
INDEX NUMBER APPROACHES TO SEASONAL ADJUSTMENT (1999) (49)
Malmquist and Törnqvist productivity indexes: returns to scale and technical progress with imperfect competition (2010) (48)
Measuring productivity in the public sector: some conceptual problems (2011) (47)
New Methodological Developments for the International Comparison Program (2010) (47)
The Measurement of Productivity for Nations (2007) (46)
Microeconomic Approaches to the Theory of International Comparisons (1985) (46)
A Note on Aggregation and Elasticities of Substitution (1974) (46)
THE MEASUREMENT OF AGGREGATE TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH* (2003) (45)
Price and Volume Measures in the System of National Accounts (1995) (44)
Benchmarking and the measurement of the best practice efficiency: an electricity generation application (1999) (44)
Functional Form Problems in Modeling Insurance and Gambling (1995) (43)
Harberger's Welfare Indicator and Revealed Preference Theory (1976) (43)
Afriat's Theorem and Some Extensions to Choice Under Uncertainty (2012) (43)
ON THE STOCHASTIC APPROACH TO INDEX NUMBERS (2010) (42)
Linear and Quadratic Spline Models for Consumer Demand Functions (1993) (41)
Substitution Bias in Multilateral Methods for CPI Construction Using Scanner Data (2017) (40)
Dynamic econometric modeling: Flexible functional forms for profit functions and global curvature conditions (1988) (40)
The Measurement of Deadweight Loss Revisited (1981) (39)
Productivity Growth and Changes in the Terms of Trade in Japan and the United States (1991) (39)
HIGH INFLATION, SEASONAL COMMODITIES, AND ANNUAL INDEX NUMBERS (1998) (38)
Which (Old) Ideas on Productivity Measurement Are Ready to Use? (2001) (38)
New Estimates of Real Income and Multifactor Productivity Growth for the Canadian Business Sector, 1961-2011 (2012) (37)
Decompositions of productivity growth into sectoral effects (2015) (34)
Hedonic Regression Models for Tokyo Condominium Sales (2016) (34)
THE EFFECTS OF UNIONIZATION ON WAGES AND EMPLOYMENT: A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS (1974) (34)
Measuring the contributions of productivity and terms of trade to Australia’s economic welfare (2006) (33)
The deadweight costs of taxation in New Zealand (1996) (32)
The Measurement of Nonmarket Sector Outputs and Inputs Using Cost Weights (2008) (32)
The Deadweight Costs of Capital Taxation in Australia (2002) (31)
Household Production, Leisure, and Living Standards (2014) (31)
Tariff Reform in a Small Open, Multi-Household Economy with Domestic Distortions and Nontraded Goods (1991) (31)
Reference technology sets, Free Disposal Hulls and productivity decompositions (2014) (30)
Comment on CPI Biases (1996) (27)
A characterization of the Törnqvist price index (2001) (27)
Symmetry Conditions for Market Demand Functions (1980) (27)
New techniques in the measurement of multifactor productivity (1990) (26)
Depreciation, Deterioration and Obsolescence when there is Embodied or Disembodied Technical Change (2007) (26)
Test Approaches to International Comparisons (1988) (26)
Durables and Owner-Occupied Housing in a Consumer Price Index (2009) (25)
Returns to Scale: Concept, Estimation and Analysis of Japan’s Turbulent 1964–88 Economy (2011) (24)
The Theory of Monetary Aggregation (book front matter) (2005) (24)
Mathematical Modelling in Economics (1993) (24)
Commercial Property Price Indexes and the System of National Accounts (2014) (23)
The measurement of productivity in the nonmarket sector (2012) (23)
Cost of Capital Services and the National Accounts (2005) (23)
Rejoinder to Gu on "Estimating Capital Input for Measuring Business Sector Multifactor Productivity Growth in Canada" (2012) (22)
A dynamic approach to the measurement of waste in an open economy (1985) (22)
Price index concepts and measurement (2009) (21)
The Digital Economy, GDP and Consumer Welfare: Theory and Evidence (2018) (21)
Problems with the Measurement of Banking Services in a National Accounting Framework (2012) (21)
A Note on the Elasticity of Derived Demand in the N-Factor Case (1971) (21)
Decompositions of Profitability Change using Cost Functions (2014) (20)
CAPITALIZING R&D EXPENDITURES (2010) (20)
Notes on Unit Value Index Bias (2010) (19)
Progress in Service Sector Productivity Measurement: Review Article on "Productivity in the U.S. Services Sector: New Sources of Economic Growth" (2005) (18)
Sunk Costs and the Measurement of Commercial Property Depreciation (2014) (18)
Unions in a General Equilibrium Model (1974) (18)
3. Generalized Concavity (2010) (17)
The Elasticity of Derived Net Supply and a Generalized Le Chatelier Principle (1981) (17)
Seasonal Commodities, High Inflation and Index Number Theory (1996) (17)
Changes in the Terms of Trade and Canada's Productivity Performance (2008) (17)
The Measurement of Deadweight Loss in an Open Economy (1984) (16)
User Costs versus Waiting Services and Depreciation in a Model of Production (2010) (15)
EXACT AND SUPERLATIVE PRICE AND QUANTITY INDICATORS (2009) (15)
The Estimation of Owner Occupied Housing Indexes using the RPPI: The Case of Tokyo ∗ (2012) (14)
The Le Chatelier Principle in Data Envelopment Analysis (2007) (14)
Measuring Productivity in the System of National Accounts (2007) (14)
The Measurement of Business Capital, Income and Performance (2005) (14)
Imputation and Price Indexes: Theory and Evidence from the International Price Program (2012) (13)
The productivity paradox and mismeasurement of economic activity (1998) (13)
A decomposition of US business sector TFP growth into technical progress and cost efficiency components (2018) (13)
Price level measurement : proceedings from a conference sponsored by Statistics Canada = La mesure du niveau des prix : actes du colloque tenu sous l'égide de Statistique Canada (1983) (13)
Estimating quality adjusted commercial property price indexes using Japanese REIT data (2015) (12)
Chapter 66 The Measurement of Productivity for Nations (2007) (12)
On Tax Reform (1988) (12)
The Gains from Trade and Policy Reform Revisited (2004) (12)
US TFP growth and the contribution of changes in export and import prices to real income growth (2014) (11)
Mathematical Modelling in Economics: Essays in Honor of Wolfgang Eichhorn (1993) (11)
The Samuelson Nonsubstitution Theorem and the Computation of Equilibrium Prices (1975) (11)
Bias Due to Input Source Substitutions: Can It Be Measured? (2010) (11)
The Excess Burden of Taxation in New Zealand (1995) (10)
Using a Constant Elasticity of Substitution Index to Estimate a Cost of Living Index: From Theory to Practice (2010) (10)
Alternative User Costs, Rates of Return and TFP Growth Rates for the US Nonfinancial Corporate and Noncorporate Business Sectors: 1960-2014 (2016) (10)
Which (Old) Ideas on Productivity Measurement Are Ready to Use (2001) (10)
THE MARGINAL COSTS OF TAXATION AND REGULATION (2007) (10)
A Note on Reconciling Gross Output TFP Growth with Value Added TFP Growth (2014) (9)
INDEX NUMBER THEORY AND MEASUREMENT ECONOMICS (2014) (9)
The measurement of inflation after tax reform (1998) (9)
The New Economy and an Old Problem: Net versus Gross Output (2005) (9)
Retrospective Price Indices and Substitution Bias (2009) (9)
Measuring the Services of Durables and Owner Occupied Housing (2019) (9)
The Treatment of Indirect Taxes and Margins and the Reconciliation of Industry with National Productivity Measures (2005) (8)
A "New" Approach to the Smoothing Problem (1998) (8)
Alternative User Costs, Productivity and Inequality in US Business Sectors (2017) (8)
Sources of Bias in Consumer Price Indexes (1996) (8)
Functional Structure and Approximation in Econometrics (book front matter) (2005) (8)
Output Growth and Inflation across Space and Time (2015) (8)
Is the Asia Pacic Region Dierent? Technical Progress Bias and Price Elasticity Estimates for 18 OECD Countries, 1960{1992 (1997) (8)
ON A THEOREM OF NEGISHI (1973) (7)
Chapter 12 ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO INDEX NUMBER THEORY (2010) (7)
Decompositions of Productivity Growth into Sectoral Effects: Some Puzzles Explained (2014) (7)
Consumer Demand Functions (1988) (7)
The Comparative Dynamics of Efficient Programs of Capital Accumulation and Resource Depletion (1982) (6)
Natural Resources and Missing Inputs in International Productivity Comparisons* (2020) (6)
Time Series versus Index Number Methods of Seasonal Adjustment (2004) (6)
Time Series versus Index Number Methods of Seasonal Adjustment (2004) (6)
Incentive Indexes for Regulated Industries (2000) (6)
Sensitivity analysis in economics (1984) (6)
Decomposing Value-Added Growth into Explanatory Factors (2017) (5)
Substitution Bias in Multilateral Methods for CPI Construction (2020) (5)
Money and the Measurement of Total Factor Productivity (2019) (5)
Developing Land and Structure Price Indices for Ottawa Condominium Apartments (2016) (5)
Commercial Property Price Indexes for Tokyo-Transaction-Based Index, Appraisal-Based Index and Present Value Index- (2012) (5)
An Empirical Illustration of Index Construction using Israeli Data on Vegetables (2014) (5)
The Effects of an Innovation: A Trade Theory Approach (1987) (5)
Bias in the Import Price Index Due to Outsourcing : Can It Be Measured ? (2009) (5)
On measuring the productivity and the standard of living in Japan, 1955-2006 (2009) (5)
Chapter 2: The Economic Approach to Index Number Theory (2012) (5)
A newly identified source of potential CPI bias: Weekly versus monthly unit value price indexes (2016) (5)
Property Price Index (2020) (4)
Comment on "Aggregation Issues in Integrating and Accelerating the BEA" (2006) (4)
The High Costs of Capital Taxation in Australia (1998) (4)
Productivity Measurement in the Public Sector (2018) (4)
The Ottawa Group after Ten Meetings: Future Priorities (2007) (4)
The Potential Impacts of Immigration on Productivity in Canada (2003) (4)
Chapter 6 The Normalized Quadratic Expenditure Function (2009) (4)
Answers to Questions Arising from the RPI Consultation (2013) (4)
Preface to The Theory of Monetary Aggregation (2000) (4)
Information failure as an alternative explanation of under investment in R&D (2003) (3)
Decomposing value added growth over sectors into explanatory factors (2016) (3)
The axiomatic and stochastic approaches to index number theory (2004) (3)
Weekly versus Monthly Unit Value Price Indexes (2015) (3)
Innovations in measurement in economics and econometrics: An overview (2016) (3)
Measuring real consumption and consumer price index bias under lockdown conditions (2022) (2)
Productivity Growth and Changes in the Terms of Trade in Japan and the U.S (1986) (2)
New Estimates of Canadian TFP Growth and the Contribution of Changes in Real Export and Import Prices to Real Income Growth (2009) (2)
Measuring Inflation under Pandemic Conditions (2022) (2)
Introduction to the Special Issue on Index Number Theory and Price Statistics (2010) (2)
Index number theory (2012) (2)
Changes in the Terms of Trade in Japan and the United States (1991) (2)
Notes on the Decomposition of Malmquist Productivity Indexes (2012) (2)
The Difference Approach to Productivity Measurement and Exact Indicators (2017) (2)
1 HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTION , LEISURE AND LIVING STANDARDS (2011) (2)
The System of National Accounts and Alternative Approaches to the Construction of Commercial Property Price Indexes (2020) (1)
Housing in a Consumer Price Index (2011) (1)
Productivity Measures and Sustainable Prosperity (2006) (1)
Commentary: Matthew D. Shapiro and David W. Wilcox (1997) (1)
Production functions: An integration of micro and marco, short run and long run aspects : L. Johansen, (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1972) 274 pp (1975) (1)
On the subadditivity of cost functions (2003) (1)
Introduction to Price and Productivity Measurement for Housing (2009) (1)
Aggregation Without Separability: A Generalized Composite (2016) (1)
Does Capitalized Net Product Equal Discounted Optimal Consumption in Discrete Time ? (2006) (1)
Does Capitalized Net Product Equal Discounted Optimal Consumption in Discrete Time ? (2006) (1)
Alternative strategies for aggregating prices in the CPI - commentary (1997) (1)
9. Additional Generalizations of Concavity (1988) (1)
Should Canada's Rate Capital Gains Taxation Be Reduced? (1999) (1)
Decomposing Value Added Growth into Explanatory Factors (2017) (1)
Productivity Measurement in the Public Sector: Theory and Practice (2017) (1)
The duality implications of a concave aggregator function (1983) (1)
An Overview of the Papers on Price Level Measurement (1990) (1)
Residential Property Price Indexes for Japan: An Outline of the Japanese Official RPPI (2014) (1)
New Approaches to Public Income Support in Canada (1998) (1)
Getting Rental Prices Right for Computers (2014) (1)
Consumption Theorems in Terms of Over and Under Compensation Revisited (1984) (1)
A Note on the Flexibility of the Barnett and Hahm Functional Form (2015) (1)
Decomposing Bjurek Productivity Indexes into Explanatory Factors (2014) (1)
Productivity Indexes and National Statistics: Theory, Methods and Challenges (2019) (0)
A decomposition of US business sector TFP growth into technical progress and cost efficiency components (2018) (0)
Rejoinder: Measuring Inflation under Pandemic Conditions (2022) (0)
A Simple Producer Benefit Measure (1986) (0)
Decompositions of productivity growth into sectoral effects (2014) (0)
Approximate Benefit Measures (1986) (0)
New Estimates for the Price of Housing in the Japanese CPI (2015) (0)
1 Alternative Approaches to Measuring House Price Inflation (2011) (0)
Notes on Price Measurement August 12, 2012 (2014) (0)
The Estimation of Restricted Profit Functions in the Cross Sectional Context (1986) (0)
Alternative Approaches to Benefit Measurement (1986) (0)
1 Notes on Price Measurement (2014) (0)
A SUMMARY OF THE MAIN RESULTS IN SHAPIRO (0)
DUALITY A PPROACHES T O M ICROECONOMIC T HEORY (1982) (0)
1 Decompositions of Productivity Growth into Sectoral Effects : Some Puzzles (2014) (0)
Chapter 7: Scanner Data and the Rolling Year GEKS Method for Constructing Indexes (2012) (0)
The Measurement of Inflation and Welfare after Tax Reform (1996) (0)
Interview of Professor W. Erwin Diewert (2016) (0)
Response to Jan de Haan's comment on "Hedonic Imputation versus Time Dummy Hedonic Indexes (2009) (0)
Growth and the Contribution of Changes in Export and Import Prices to Real Income Growth January 3 , 2013 (2013) (0)
Commercial Property Price Indexes for Tokyo -Estimating Quality Adjusted Commercial Property Price Indexes Using J-REIT Data- (2013) (0)
Estimation of Residential Property Price Index: Methodology and Data Sources (2020) (0)
Symmetric Means and the Expected Utility Theorem (1993) (0)
Price Index Concepts and Measurement: Introduction: What Are the Issues? (2009) (0)
The Estimation of Restricted Profit Functions in the Time Series Context (1986) (0)
IX. Benchmarking and the Nonparametric Approach to Performance Measurement (2005) (0)
Kevin J. Fox Interview of W. Erwin Diewert (2016) (0)
Problems with the Producer Benefit Measure (1986) (0)
The measurement of productivity in the nonmarket sector (2011) (0)
5. Special Functional Forms I: Composite Functions, Products, and Ratios (1988) (0)
The Selection of a Functional Form in the Econometric Approach (1986) (0)
Consumer Benefits of Infrastructure Services (2013) (0)
A Comparison of Alternative Approaches to Measuring House Price Inflation (2020) (0)
CHAPTER 8: Nonlinear Programming: The Saddle Point Approach and the Kuhn- (2009) (0)
8. Concave Transformable Functions (1988) (0)
The Selection and Measurement of Variables in the Econometric Approach (1986) (0)
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH (2021) (0)
Chapter 5: Lowe Indexes and the Practical Construction of a CPI (2014) (0)
FUNCTIONAL FORMS FOR REVENUPJ AND FACTOR (2016) (0)
US TFP growth and the contribution of changes in export and import prices to real income growth (2013) (0)
Imputed Rent for OOH in National Account (2020) (0)
AND THE COMPUTATION OF EQUILIBRIUM PRICES (1975) (0)
THE DEMAND FOR DURABLES (1974) (0)
Theoretical Background of Hedonic Measure and Repeat Sales Measure-Survey- (2020) (0)
International Policy Discussion in Property Price Indices (2020) (0)
Functional from Problems in Modelling Insurance and Gambling. (1996) (0)
Willingness to Pay Functions and Marginal Cost Functions (1986) (0)
CHAPTER 7: The Use of Annual Weights in a Monthly Index 1. The Lowe Index with Monthly Prices and Annual Base Year Quantities (2012) (0)
Chapter 6: The Treatment of Seasonal Commodities (2012) (0)
Owner occupied housing : notes on the treatment of housing in the national accounts and the ICP - second technical advisory group meeting (February 17-19, 2010) (2010) (0)
A Numerical Example of the Chain Drift Problem (2020) (0)
6. Special Functional Forms II: Quadratic Functions (1988) (0)
Cost benefit analysis and project evaluation from the viewpoint of productive efficiency (1980) (0)
Chapter 4: Elementary Price Indexes (2012) (0)
7. Fractional Programming (2010) (0)

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