Common-Stock Indexes, 2nd ed January 1939 CFM 3.2 Author(s) Alfred Cowles 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]
Common-Stock Indexes, 1871-1937 January 1938 CFM 3.1 Author(s) Alfred Cowles 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 (See list, p. xii) [51] Indexes (See list, pp. x-xi) 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]