CFM 3.2
Alfred Cowles & Associates, Common-Stock Indexes, 2nd ed., Principia Press, Inc., 1939 [15,804 kb] [Table of Contents]
Abstract:
Preliminary Pages [i-xii] | |
Chapter | |
1 | The Importance of Common Stocks [1] |
2 | Cowles Commission Indexes [2] |
3 | Period Covered [4] |
4 | Data Employed [5] |
5 | Selection of the Index-Number Formulas [11] |
6 | Construction of the Stock Price Indexes [17] |
7 | The Standard Statistics Company Formula [25] |
8 | Fisher’s “Ideal” Formula [30] |
9 | Criticisms of Well-Known Indexes [33] |
10 | Some Important Facts Disclosed by the Indexes [40] |
Charts [51] | |
Indexes | |
1 | Series P — Stock Prices [65] |
2 | Series C — Stock Prices including Cash Dividends [167] |
3 | Series Y — Yield Expectations [269] |
4 | Series Y_a — Yields [371] |
5 | Series D_a — Dividend Payments [387] |
6 | Series R — Earnings-Price Ratios [403] |
7 | Series E — Earnings [419] |
Appendixes | |
1 | United States and Foreign Common-Stock Indexes [437] |
2 | Common Stocks Included in Cowles Commission Indexes [454] |
3 | Series P_Ea — Prices of Stocks for which Earnings Data Are Available [476] |
4 | Series Y_Ea — Yields of Stocks for which Earnings Data Are Available [484] |
5 | Index of Bond Interest [492] |
General Index to Introduction and Appendix I [495] |