Index Numbers and Consistency in Aggregation: Part II

This post gets even more technical than the last. I'm just blogging about what I'm reading in the course of my research. I read a whole bunch more papers on index numbers, which got more and more technical. The bottom line is that for most applications the chain Fisher index is an appropriate index to use. An index is superlative if it is exact for an aggregator function (e.g. a production