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Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC

January, 1997 Macro Modeling with Chain-type GDP Chris Varvares, Joel Prakken and Lisa Guirl

Income and Expenditure Accounts Division, Technical Series

Number 35, second quarter 1996 The Effect of Rebasing on GDP Chris Jackson
Number 14, August, 1991 The Introduction of Chain Volume Indexes in the Income and Expenditure Accounts Karen Wilson
Number 6, June, 1990 Real Gross Domestic Product: Sensitivity to the Choice of Base Year Marie Saulnier
Number 1, December, 1988 Laspeyres, Paasche and Chain Price Indexes in the Income and Expenditure Accounts

**Articles in the US Survey of Current Business related to chain volume indexes**

December, 1999 Improved Estimates of the National Income and Product Accounts for 1959-98 - Results of the Comprehensive Revision Eugene P. Seskin
October, 1999 A Preview of the 1999 Comprehensive Revision of the National Income and Product Accounts - Statistical Changes Brent R. Moulton and Eugene P. Seskin
September, 1999 A Preview of the 1999 Comprehensive Revision of the National Income and Product Accounts - New and Redesigned Tables Brent R. Moulton and David F. Sullivan
August, 1999 A Preview of the 1999 Comprehensive Revision of the National Income and Product Accounts - Definitional and Classificational Changes Brent R. Moulton, Robert P. Parker and Eugene P. Seskin
September, 1998 Updated Summary NIPA Methodologies
April, 1998 National Income and Product Accounts 1929-94 - vol.1, definitions and classifications
May, 1997 BEA's Chain Indexes, Time Series, and Measures of Long-Term Economic Growth J. Steven Landefeld and Robert P. Parker
July, 1995 Preview of the Comprehensive Revision of the National Income and Product Accounts: - BEA's New Featured Measures of Output and Prices J. Steven Landefeld and Robert P. Parker
March, 1993 Alternate Measures of Change in Real Output and Prices, Quarterly Estimates for 1959-92 Allan H. Young
April, 1992 Alternate Measures of Change in Real Output and Prices Allan H. Young
April, 1992 Economic Theory and BEA's Alternative Quantity and Price Indexes Jack E. Triplett

OECD Meeting of National Accounts Experts

September, 2000 U.S. National Income and Products Accounts: Annual and quarterly chain measures of quantity and prices Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce
September, 2000 The Chain Index for GDP Volume Measures: the Italian Experience ISTAT - ITALY
September, 2000 Consistent Aggregation and Chaining of Price and Quantity Measures University of Munich, Germany
September, 2000 Chain Volumes Based on the Hillinger Aggregation Method National Accounts - OECD, France
September, 2000 How the Chain-Additivity Issue is Treated in the U.S. Economic Accounts Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce
September, 1998 Quarterly Chain Series Statistics Netherlands
September, 1998 Introduction of chain volume measures - the Australian experience Australian Bureau of Statistics

Chain Volume Measures in the Australian National Accounts

March, 1998 Introduction of Chain Volume Measures in the Australian National Accounts - Information paper 5248.0 by W. McLennan, Australian Statistician
November, 1999 Australian System of National Accounts, 1998-1999
September, 2000 National Income, Expenditure and Product, June quarter 2000
Volume and price measures

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