Kimberly D. Zieschang
Last Updated: February 24, 2012
Kim Zieschang is Chief of the Real Sector Division of the IMF Statistics Department (STA). Research interests are economic statistics, national accounting, index numbers, and measuring financial services production and consumption. He has published articles in Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the Americal Statistical Association, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Econometrica, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Economics Letters, and chapters in NBER books. He contributed chapters to the Consumer Price Index, Producer Price Index, and Export and Import Price Index Manuals of the Intersecretariat Working Group on Price Statistics (IWGPS). He is one of STA's representatives on the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on National Accounts (ISWGNA) and served on ISWGNA's Pension and Financial Intermediation Services Task Forces. He serves on the Technical Advisory Group of the International Comparison Program (ICP) headquartered at the World Bank, and as IMF's alternate representative on the ICP Executive Board.
Email: kzieschang@imf.org
Personal WebPage: http://www-people.imf.org/person.aspx?accountname=kzieschang
Education:
1973-1978 University of North Carolina, PhD Economics, Econometrics minor. 1970-1973 University of Texas Arlington, BS Economics, Mathematics minor.
Previous Experience:
July 2006-present, Chief, Real Sector Division, Statistics Department (STA), International Monetary Fund. 2004-2006, Chief of the Data Dissemination Standards Division, STA. 1999-2004, Deputy Chief of the Real Sector Division, STA. 1997-1999, Senior Economist Real Sector Division, STA. 1994-1997, Associate Commissioner for Compensation and Working Conditions of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (USBLS). 1992-1994, Economist, IMF/STA, Real Sector Division. 1987-1992 Chief, Division of Price And Index Number Research (DPINR), USBLS. 1978-1987, research economist, USBLS/DPINR.
IMF Books and Working Papers:
Compiling and Using Export and Import Price Indices, Working Paper No. 02/230, December 01, 2002
A Framework for Price Statistics, Working Paper No. 00/24, January 01, 2000
Methodologies of Price Indices in Transition Countries, Working Paper No. 95/106, November 01, 1995
Books
Zieschang, K. 2009. Chapter 14, The System of Price Statistics; and Chapter 17, The Economic Approach (joint with Erwin Diewert), in Export and Import Price Index Manual. International Labor Organization, International Monetary Fund, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, and The World Bank. Geneva: International Labor Organization, Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund.
Fixler, D., and K. Zieschang. 2006. Economic Statistics and the Transmission of Monetary Policy to the Real Economy, in Michael Belongia and Jane Binner, Eds, Money, Measurement and Computation, London: MacMillan.
Zieschang, K. 2004. Chapter 14, The System of Price Statistics, in Consumer Price Index Manual. International Labor Organization, International Monetary Fund, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, and The World Bank. Geneva: International Labor Organization.
Zieschang, K. 2004. Chapter 14, The System of Price Statistics, in Producer Price index Manual. International Labor Organization, International Monetary Fund, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, and The World Bank. Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund.
Kokoski, M., B. Moulton, and K. Zieschang. 1999. Interarea Price Comparisons for Heterogeneous Goods and Several Levels of Commodity Aggregation, in Alan Heston, and Irving Kravis, Eds, Interarea and International Comparisons of Prices, Income, and Output. Boston: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Pierce, B., J. Ruser, and K. Zieschang. 1999. Constructing Interarea Compensation Cost Indexes with Data from Multiple Surveys, in Alan Heston, and Irving Kravis, Eds, Interarea and International Comparisons of Prices, Income, and Output. Boston: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Lovell, C.A.K., and K. Zieschang. 1994. The Problem of New and Disappearing Commodities in the Construction of Price Indexes, in Abraham Charnes, William Cooper, Arie Lewin, and Lawrence Sieford, Eds, Data Envelopment Analysis: Theory, Methodology, and Applications. Norwell, Mass.: Kluwer.
Fixler, D., and K. Zieschang. 1992. User Costs, Shadow Prices, and the Real Output of Banks, in Zvi Griliches, Ed, Output Measurement in the Service Sectors. Boston: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Zieschang, K. 1983. On the Structure of Technologies of an Input-Limited Unit, in Quantitative Studies on Production and Prices, Würzburg-Vienna: Physica-Verlag.
Articles
Journal Articles
Zieschang, K. 2011. Recent Advances in Purchasing Power Parities (Review of 'Purchasing Power Parities of Countries: Recent Advances in Methods and Applications,' edited by D. S. Prasada Rao), Review of Income and Wealth, series 57, number 3, September.
Dridi, J., and K. Zieschang. 2004. Export and Import Price Indices, IMF Staff Papers 51(1), 157-194.
Fixler, D., and K. Zieschang. 1999. The Productivity of the Banking Sector: Integrating Financial and Production Approaches to Measuring Financial Service Output. Canadian Journal of Economics 32(2).
Lequiller, F., and K. Zieschang. 1994. Drift in Producer Price Indices for the Former Soviet Union Countries, IMF Staff Papers 41(3), 526-532.
Fixler, D., and K. Zieschang. 1993. An Index Number Approach to Productivity and Efficiency Measurement: An Application to Bank Mergers, Journal of Banking and Finance 17, 437-450.
Fixler, D. and K. Zieschang. 1992. Incorporating Ancillary Information on Process and Product Characteristics into a Superlative Productivity Index, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2, 245-267.
Fixler, D. and K. Zieschang. 1991. Measuring the Nominal Value of Financial Services in the National Income Accounts, Economic Inquiry 24, 53-68.
Zieschang, K. 1990. Sample Weighting Methods and Estimation of Totals in the Consumer Expenditure Survey, Journal of the American Statistical Association 85(412), 986-1001.
Färe, R., and K. Zieschang. 1989. Determining Output Shadow Prices for a Cost-Constrained Technology, Journal of Economics 54, 143-155.
Randolph, W., and K. Zieschang. 1987. Aggregation Consistent Restriction Based Improvement of Local Area Estimators, American Statistical Association Proceedings of the Business and Economics Section.
Reece, W., and K. Zieschang. 1987. Output Price Indices for Regulated Monopoly, Economics Letters 25, 85-89.
Greenlees, J., and K. Zieschang. 1986. Grouping Tests for Misspecification: An Application to Housing Demand, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.
Reece, W., and K. Zieschang. 1985. Consistent Estimation of the Impact of Tax Deductibility on the Level of Charitable Contributions, Econometrica 53, 271-294.
Zieschang, K. 1983. A Note on the Decomposition of Cost Efficiency into Technical and Allocative Components, Journal of Econometrics 23, 401-405.
Zieschang, K. 1983. An Extended Farrell Technical Efficiency Measure, Journal of Economic Theory 33, 387-396.
Greenlees, J., W. Reece, and K. Zieschang. 1982. Imputation when the Probability of Response Depends upon the Variable Being Imputed, Journal of the American Statistical Association 77, 251-261.
IMF Occasional Papers, Pamphlets, and Special Issues Papers
Bloem, A., P. Armknecht, and K. Zieschang. 2002. Price Indices for Inflation Targeting, in C. Carson, C. Enoch, and C. Dziobek, Eds., Statistical Implications of Inflation Targeting. Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund.
Other IMF Publications
Kim Zieschang is Chief of the Real Sector Division of the IMF Statistics Department (STA). Research interests are economic statistics, national accounting, index numbers, and measuring financial services production and consumption. He has published articles in Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the Americal Statistical Association, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Econometrica, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Economics Letters, and chapters in NBER books. He contributed chapters to the Consumer Price Index, Producer Price Index, and Export and Import Price Index Manuals of the Intersecretariat Working Group on Price Statistics (IWGPS). He is one of STA's representatives on the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on National Accounts (ISWGNA) and served on ISWGNA's Pension and Financial Intermediation Services Task Forces. He serves on the Technical Advisory Group of the International Comparison Program (ICP) headquartered at the World Bank, and as IMF's alternate representative on the ICP Executive Board.
Email: kzieschang@imf.org
Personal WebPage: http://www-people.imf.org/person.aspx?accountname=kzieschang
Education:
1973-1978 University of North Carolina, PhD Economics, Econometrics minor. 1970-1973 University of Texas Arlington, BS Economics, Mathematics minor.
Previous Experience:
July 2006-present, Chief, Real Sector Division, Statistics Department (STA), International Monetary Fund. 2004-2006, Chief of the Data Dissemination Standards Division, STA. 1999-2004, Deputy Chief of the Real Sector Division, STA. 1997-1999, Senior Economist Real Sector Division, STA. 1994-1997, Associate Commissioner for Compensation and Working Conditions of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (USBLS). 1992-1994, Economist, IMF/STA, Real Sector Division. 1987-1992 Chief, Division of Price And Index Number Research (DPINR), USBLS. 1978-1987, research economist, USBLS/DPINR.
IMF Books and Working Papers:
Compiling and Using Export and Import Price Indices, Working Paper No. 02/230, December 01, 2002
A Framework for Price Statistics, Working Paper No. 00/24, January 01, 2000
Methodologies of Price Indices in Transition Countries, Working Paper No. 95/106, November 01, 1995
Books
Zieschang, K. 2009. Chapter 14, The System of Price Statistics; and Chapter 17, The Economic Approach (joint with Erwin Diewert), in Export and Import Price Index Manual. International Labor Organization, International Monetary Fund, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, and The World Bank. Geneva: International Labor Organization, Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund.
Fixler, D., and K. Zieschang. 2006. Economic Statistics and the Transmission of Monetary Policy to the Real Economy, in Michael Belongia and Jane Binner, Eds, Money, Measurement and Computation, London: MacMillan.
Zieschang, K. 2004. Chapter 14, The System of Price Statistics, in Consumer Price Index Manual. International Labor Organization, International Monetary Fund, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, and The World Bank. Geneva: International Labor Organization.
Zieschang, K. 2004. Chapter 14, The System of Price Statistics, in Producer Price index Manual. International Labor Organization, International Monetary Fund, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, and The World Bank. Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund.
Kokoski, M., B. Moulton, and K. Zieschang. 1999. Interarea Price Comparisons for Heterogeneous Goods and Several Levels of Commodity Aggregation, in Alan Heston, and Irving Kravis, Eds, Interarea and International Comparisons of Prices, Income, and Output. Boston: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Pierce, B., J. Ruser, and K. Zieschang. 1999. Constructing Interarea Compensation Cost Indexes with Data from Multiple Surveys, in Alan Heston, and Irving Kravis, Eds, Interarea and International Comparisons of Prices, Income, and Output. Boston: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Lovell, C.A.K., and K. Zieschang. 1994. The Problem of New and Disappearing Commodities in the Construction of Price Indexes, in Abraham Charnes, William Cooper, Arie Lewin, and Lawrence Sieford, Eds, Data Envelopment Analysis: Theory, Methodology, and Applications. Norwell, Mass.: Kluwer.
Fixler, D., and K. Zieschang. 1992. User Costs, Shadow Prices, and the Real Output of Banks, in Zvi Griliches, Ed, Output Measurement in the Service Sectors. Boston: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Zieschang, K. 1983. On the Structure of Technologies of an Input-Limited Unit, in Quantitative Studies on Production and Prices, Würzburg-Vienna: Physica-Verlag.
Articles
Journal Articles
Zieschang, K. 2011. Recent Advances in Purchasing Power Parities (Review of 'Purchasing Power Parities of Countries: Recent Advances in Methods and Applications,' edited by D. S. Prasada Rao), Review of Income and Wealth, series 57, number 3, September.
Dridi, J., and K. Zieschang. 2004. Export and Import Price Indices, IMF Staff Papers 51(1), 157-194.
Fixler, D., and K. Zieschang. 1999. The Productivity of the Banking Sector: Integrating Financial and Production Approaches to Measuring Financial Service Output. Canadian Journal of Economics 32(2).
Lequiller, F., and K. Zieschang. 1994. Drift in Producer Price Indices for the Former Soviet Union Countries, IMF Staff Papers 41(3), 526-532.
Fixler, D., and K. Zieschang. 1993. An Index Number Approach to Productivity and Efficiency Measurement: An Application to Bank Mergers, Journal of Banking and Finance 17, 437-450.
Fixler, D. and K. Zieschang. 1992. Incorporating Ancillary Information on Process and Product Characteristics into a Superlative Productivity Index, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2, 245-267.
Fixler, D. and K. Zieschang. 1991. Measuring the Nominal Value of Financial Services in the National Income Accounts, Economic Inquiry 24, 53-68.
Zieschang, K. 1990. Sample Weighting Methods and Estimation of Totals in the Consumer Expenditure Survey, Journal of the American Statistical Association 85(412), 986-1001.
Färe, R., and K. Zieschang. 1989. Determining Output Shadow Prices for a Cost-Constrained Technology, Journal of Economics 54, 143-155.
Randolph, W., and K. Zieschang. 1987. Aggregation Consistent Restriction Based Improvement of Local Area Estimators, American Statistical Association Proceedings of the Business and Economics Section.
Reece, W., and K. Zieschang. 1987. Output Price Indices for Regulated Monopoly, Economics Letters 25, 85-89.
Greenlees, J., and K. Zieschang. 1986. Grouping Tests for Misspecification: An Application to Housing Demand, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.
Reece, W., and K. Zieschang. 1985. Consistent Estimation of the Impact of Tax Deductibility on the Level of Charitable Contributions, Econometrica 53, 271-294.
Zieschang, K. 1983. A Note on the Decomposition of Cost Efficiency into Technical and Allocative Components, Journal of Econometrics 23, 401-405.
Zieschang, K. 1983. An Extended Farrell Technical Efficiency Measure, Journal of Economic Theory 33, 387-396.
Greenlees, J., W. Reece, and K. Zieschang. 1982. Imputation when the Probability of Response Depends upon the Variable Being Imputed, Journal of the American Statistical Association 77, 251-261.
IMF Occasional Papers, Pamphlets, and Special Issues Papers
Bloem, A., P. Armknecht, and K. Zieschang. 2002. Price Indices for Inflation Targeting, in C. Carson, C. Enoch, and C. Dziobek, Eds., Statistical Implications of Inflation Targeting. Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund.
