First meeting of the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics, Istanbul, August 1997

Administrative Meetings	page
Minutes of the Administrative Meetings, Istanbul, 20 and 21 August 1997	2
Commemoration of Irving Fisher
Scholar in Pursuit of the Common Good Hans van Wijk	5
The Significance of Fisher's Ideas for National Accounts Zoltan Kenessey	12
Invited Papers	15
On the Construction of European Area-wide Aggregates - a Review of the Issues and Empirical Evidence C C A Winder	15
The Back-calculation of Nominal Historical Series after the Introduction of the European Currency - an Application to the GDP José M González Mínguez	24
Eurostat's Strategy in Harmonising Statistics in the Euro Environment Alberto De Michelis and Frank Schönborn	36
Les problèmes pratiques pour la collecte, le traitement et la diffusion des statistiques publiques après l'entrée en vigueur de l'euro dans l'Union Monétaire Européenne Jean-Louis Bodin	42
Meeting the Statistical Requirements for Stage Three of Monetary Union - some Aggregation Issues Peter A Bull	48
Discussants' Comments	53
I     Rudi Acx	53
II    René H M Smulders	55
III   Enrico Giovannini	57
Contributed Papers	59
Irving Fisher and the Modern Theory of Indices János Barta	59
Leading Indicators of Inflation in Turkey Mahmut Kalkan, Ahmet N Kipici, Ayşe Tatar Peker	71
Price Compilation and Construction of Various Price Indices in Iran Assad Monajemi	93

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