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Mismeasuring Long Run Growth. The Bias from Spliced National Accounts
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
accounts and historical estimates are spliced. To allow for changes in relative prices, GDP benchmark years in national … accounts are periodically replaced with new and more recent ones. Thus, a homogeneous long-run GDP series requires linking … GDP levels and growth, particularly as an economy undergoes deep structural transformation. An inadequate splicing may …
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Persistent but not consistent: The growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807
Zanden, Jan Luiten van; van Leeuwen, Bas - In: Explorations in Economic History 49 (2012) 2, pp. 119-130
the entire period GDP per capita increased by on average 0.19% per year. This persistent growth, however, was highly …
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An annual index of Irish industrial production, 1800-1921
Kenny, Sean; Lennard, Jason; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314118
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Europe's many integrations: Geography and grain markets, 1620–1913
Chilosi, David; Murphy, Tommy E.; Studer, Roman; … - In: Explorations in Economic History 50 (2013) 1, pp. 46-68
This article documents and examines the integration of markets across the early modern/late modern divide, exploiting the largest dataset compiled to date on grain prices, spanning one hundred European cities evenly spread across land-locked and low-land areas. Using those series, it studies...
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French economic cycles: a wavelet analysis of French retrospective GNP series.
Baubeau, Patrice; Cazelles, Bernard - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 3 (2009) 3, pp. 275-300
Although 50 years of scientific work has been invested in building retrospective economic time series, their reliability is still debated, a good example being the two competing nineteenth century French GNP series. Instead of trying to bring up some new details to gauge their respective...
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The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)
Álvarez-Nogal, Carlos; Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Two distinctive regimes are distinguished in Spain over half-a-millennium. A first one (1270s-1590s) corresponds to a high land-labour ratio frontier economy, pastoral, trade-oriented, and led by towns. Wages and food consumption were relatively high. Sustained per capita growth occurred from...
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Swedish GDP 1620-1800 : stagnation or growth ?
Edvinsson, Rodney Benjamin - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 7 (2013) 1, pp. 37-60
This paper reconstructs an annual volume series of GDP and GDP per capita for Sweden within present borders 1620 …–1800, extending the annual series that exist from 1800 onwards. Annual fluctuations of GDP are estimated from the annual fluctuations …-term trend of GDP per capita increased modestly during the studied period, a different development from real wages that fell …
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Measuring economic well-being and sustainability : a practical agenda for the present and the future
Ven, Peter J. van de - In: Eurostat review on national accounts and macroeconomic … (2019) 1, pp. 7-41
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most widely used indicator from the system of national accounts. Although often …
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On the Shoulders of Giants: Tracing Back the Intellectual Sources of the Current Debate on “GDP and Beyond” to the 19th Century
Moore, Nils aus dem; Schmidt, Christoph M. - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 233 (2013) 3, pp. 266-290
international debate on “GDP and beyond”. In contrast to similar efforts displayed in previous decades, the current projects …
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FDI inflow as an international business operation by MNCs and economic growth: An empirical study on Turkey
Temiz, Dilek; Gökmen, Aytaç - In: International Business Review 23 (2014) 1, pp. 145-154
then to analyze the FDI inflow and GDP growth in Turkey with econometric methods. …
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