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Working to Improve Price Indices Development in Pakistan
Khalid, Mahmood; Asghar, Zahid - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Given the importance of Consumer Price Index (CPI), there has been long debate on its measurement issues. It is the … country. Other uses of CPI for indexation are social security benefits, rents, contractual payments, taxation, deflating … of inflation on demographic composition of the population. Any measurement error in CPI may overstate or understate …
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Keeping Dictators Honest : the Role of Population Concentration
Doy, Quoc-Anh; Campante, Filipe R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
In order to explain the apparently paradoxical presence of acceptable governance in many non-democratic regimes, economists and political scientists have focused mostly on institutions acting as de facto checks and balances. In this paper, we propose that population plays a similar role in...
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A Centered Index of Spatial Concentration : Axiomatic Approach with an Application to Population and Capital Cities
Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
We construct an axiomatic index of spatial concentration around a center or capital point of interest, a concept with wide applicability from urban economics, economic geography and trade, to political economy and industrial organization. We propose basic axioms (decomposability and...
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Comparing GDP in constant and in chained prices : Some new results
Dumagan, Jesus C. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This papers framework for GDP in chained prices yields GDP in constant prices as a special case of constant relative prices, i.e., these GDP measures differ only when relative prices change. The framework has a novel additive procedure, counter to the prevailing view that GDP in chained prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363888
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Implementing US GDP in Chained Prices for Cross-country GDP Growth and Sectoral Comparisons : Application to Selected ASEAN Countries
Dumagan, Jesus C. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
GDP in constant prices of ASEAN countries suffers from substitution bias by ignoring relative price changes and makes GDP growth and shares dependent on the base year. These analytical deficiencies led the US since the mid-1990s to convert GDP from constant to chained prices. Thus, cross-country...
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Comparing GDP in Constant and in Chained Prices : Some New Results
Dumagan, Jesus C. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This papers framework for GDP in chained prices yields GDP in constant prices as a special case of constant relative prices, i.e., these GDP measures differ only when relative prices change. The framework has a novel additive procedure, counter to the prevailing view that GDP in chained prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363985
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The Electric Energy-Water Nexus : Managing the Seasonal Linkages of Fresh Water Use in Energy Sector for Sustainable Future
Sri, Perini Praveena - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The fast growing demand for fresh water-coupled with the need to protect the environment has made many areas of India and the rest of the World vulnerable to water shortages for various uses of the economy. As they interact with Electricity Industry, water availability is critical to power...
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Using Panel Data to Exactly Estimate Income Under-Reporting by the Self Employed
Kim, Bonggeun; Gibson, John; Chung, Chul - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
The income of the self-employed is often assumed to be understated in economic statistics. Controversy exists about the best method for estimating the extent of under-reporting and about the resulting measures of the size of the underground economy. This paper refines a method developed by...
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Progress in Human Development - Are we on the right path?
Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle; Mishra, Srijit - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The conventional measure of Human Development Index (HDI) is a linear average across dimensions, HDI1. Under this, poor attainments in any dimension gets perfectly compensated for better attainments in any other dimension HDI2, which is based on Euclidean distance measuring shortfall from the...
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Computing Additive Chained Volume Measures of GDP Subaggregates
Dumagan, Jesus C. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
This paper derives formulas for additive chained volume measures (CVMs) of GDP subaggregates depending on the underlying GDP quantity index. In turn, this paper explains why the formulas used in current practice yield non-additive CVMs. This papers additive formulas have significant practical...
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