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Measuring Real Investment : Trends in the United States and International Comparisons
Kirova, Milka S. - 1998
The standard measures of nominal capital formation show the United States investing a proportion of GDP much lower than those of other developed countries throughout the last 25 years and falling further behind over time. In contrast, measures we have calculated in real terms across countries...
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Measuring Real Consumption and CPI Bias under Lockdown Conditions
Diewert, W. Erwin - 2020
Millions of goods and services are now unavailable in many countries due to the current coronavirus pandemic, dramatically impacting on the construction of key economic statistics used for informing policy. This situation is unprecedented; hence methods to address it have not previously been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481727
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Mismeasurement of the CPI
Ariga, Kenn - 2003
In this paper, we investigate several key problems in Japanese economic statistics. We use CPI mismeasurements and biases as an example to explore the roots of the problems and also to offer guidelines for improvements. We emphasize 3 major shortcomings shared by many official statistics in...
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Mismeasurement in the Consumer Price Index : An Evaluation
Shapiro, Matthew D. - 1996
living. This paper develops a framework for studying measurement problems in the consumer price index and systematically …A number of analysts have claimed recently that the consumer price index overstates the annual increase in the cost of … show how better to measure medical care prices, the paper presents a prototypical price index for cataract surgery. This …
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Hedonic Price Indexes and the Measurement of Capital and Productivity : Some Historical Reflections
Griliches, Zvi - 1988
the measurement of capital services and connects it to the Jorgenson-Griliches (1967) paper on the "explanation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476438
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Axiomatic and Economic Approaches to International Comparisons
Diewert, W. Erwin - 1996
The paper considers the problem of choosing a multilateral system of index numbers in order to make aggregate price and … index number formula. The great variation in relative prices and quantities in the international context means that the … approach, the concept of a superlative bilateral index number formula (which can adequately model substitution effects) is …
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The Fast, the Slow, and the Congested : Urban Transportation in Rich and Poor Countries
Akbar, Prottoy; Couture, Victor; Duranton, Gilles; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We assemble a new global database on motor vehicle travel speed in over 1,200 large cities in 152 countries. We then estimate comparable city-level indices of travel speed and congestion. Most of the variation in urban travel speed is across countries, not within. National income per capita...
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Estimating real production and expenditures across nations : a proposal for improving the Penn world tables
Feenstra, Robert C. (contributor) - 2004
"In this paper we propose a new approach to international comparisons of real GDP measured from the output-side. The traditional Geary-Khamis system to measure real GDP from the expenditure-side is modified to include differences in the terms of trade between countries. It is shown that this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522867
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A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies
Hendren, Nathaniel - 2019
We conduct a comparative welfare analysis of 133 historical policy changes over the past half-century in the United States, focusing on policies in social insurance, education and job training, taxes and cash transfers, and in-kind transfers. For each policy, we use existing causal estimates to...
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Innovativity : A Comparison Across Seven European Countries
Mohnen, Pierre - 2006
This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the...
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