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A persistent issue in environmental economics is whether growth is sustainable. Pollution is a key driver of sustainability, which we define as an economy exhibiting falling pollution damages at its balanced growth path. We deduct air pollution and carbon dioxide damages from the national...
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, and economic historians. Frequently used global data come from the Penn World Table (PWT) and the World Bank's World … Development Indicators; a substantial fraction of the world is also covered in the PPP accounts produced by the OECD and the …; version 7.0 of the Penn World Table will soon incorporate these results. The 2005 ICP, like earlier rounds, involved …
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Digital goods can generate large benefits for consumers, but these benefits are largely unmeasured in the national accounts, including GDP and productivity. In this paper, we measure welfare gains from 10 popular digital goods across 13 countries by conducting large-scale incentivized online...
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the world averages more than 6% per year since 1960 as opposed to 2% per year for consumption growth. Countries such as …
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Integrating national accounting with financial accounting, we provide firm-specific estimates of current-cost capital stocks for the entire Compustat universe, as well as an array of estimates of investment flows, economic depreciation rates, and capital and investment price deflators. The...
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interpretations of the effect of World War I on the American economy and the nature and cause of the depression of 1921 …
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1929 relative to the period since World War II. Some recent work claims that the longstanding stylized fact of greater …
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