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Measuring the Nominal Value of Financial Services in the National Income Accounts

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  • Fixler, Dennis
  • Zieschang, Kimberly D

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The recent growth in the U.S. financial service sector has resurrected the controversy over the treatment of financial services in the national income accounts. The main points of contention are the treatment of interest payments and the valuation of "free" financial services provided by banks. To examine different treatments of financial services, the authors employ a financial firm model that links financial service prices to the user cost of money. They show that their approach subsumes both the Department of Commerce and the U.N. Statistical Office approaches and thereby provides a heretofore absent economic foundation for their methods. Copyright 1991 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Fixler, Dennis & Zieschang, Kimberly D, 1991. "Measuring the Nominal Value of Financial Services in the National Income Accounts," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 29(1), pages 53-68, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ecinqu:v:29:y:1991:i:1:p:53-68
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    1. Dennis Fixler, 2014. "Priorities and Directions for Future Productivity Research: A BEA Perspective," International Productivity Monitor, Centre for the Study of Living Standards, vol. 27, pages 10-13, Fall.
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    3. Fixler, Dennis & Zieschang, Kim, 2019. "Producing liquidity," Journal of Financial Stability, Elsevier, vol. 42(C), pages 115-135.
    4. Allen N. Berger & David B. Humphrey, 1992. "Measurement and Efficiency Issues in Commercial Banking," NBER Chapters, in: Output Measurement in the Service Sectors, pages 245-300, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    5. Gabriel Asaftei & Subal Kumbhakar, 2008. "Regulation and efficiency in transition: the case of Romanian banks," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Springer, vol. 33(3), pages 253-282, June.
    6. J. Christina Wang, 2003. "Loanable funds, risk, and bank service output," Working Papers 03-4, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
    7. Harchaoui, Tarek M., 2012. "A Quarter of a Century Progress Report on the Services Sector Productivity Statistics. A Europe-United States Perspective," GGDC Research Memorandum GD-125, Groningen Growth and Development Centre, University of Groningen.
    8. Jayasinghe, Milan, 2005. "On the Mechanics of Measuring the Production of Financial Institutions," MPRA Paper 7694, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    9. Diewert, Erwin & Fixler, Dennis & Zieschang, Kimberly, 2012. "Problems with the Measurement of Banking Services in a National Accounting Framework," Economics working papers erwin_diewert-2012-14, Vancouver School of Economics, revised 04 Apr 2012.
    10. W. Erwin Diewert, 1995. "Price and Volume Measures in the System of National Accounts," NBER Working Papers 5103, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    11. Hartwick, John M., 1997. "On Imputing for Financial Services in the National Accounts Commercial Banking in General Equilibrium," Queen's Institute for Economic Research Discussion Papers 273380, Queen's University - Department of Economics.
    12. Diewert, Erwin, 2007. "Measuring Productivity in the System of National Accounts," Economics working papers diewert-07-11-16-12-39-23, Vancouver School of Economics, revised 16 Nov 2007.
    13. Paolo Guarda & Abdelaziz Rouabah, 2007. "Banking output & price indicators from quarterly reporting data," BCL working papers 27, Central Bank of Luxembourg.
    14. Kimberly D. Zieschang, 2016. "FISIM Accounting," CEPA Working Papers Series WP012016, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    15. Joseph G. Haubrich, 1991. "Financial efficiency and aggregate fluctuations: an exploration," Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, vol. 27(Q IV), pages 25-36.
    16. Rolf Färe & Kimberly Zieschang, 1991. "Determining output shadow prices for a cost-constrained technology," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 54(2), pages 143-155, June.

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