CIRJE-F-810 "A Note on the Decomposition Technique of Economic Indices"
Author Name Mori, Kohta, Saki Sugano, Joe Chen, Yun Jeong Choi and Yasuyuki Sawada
Date July 2011
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Remarks  Subsequently published in Economics Bulletin EB-12-00317, 2012. 
Abstract

This note introduces a generalized version of various multi-component decomposition, which can be applied to two classes of indices, the additive-product form and the product-additive form. We also provide an example of the application.