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This paper uses panel data for 19 OECD countries and finds support for the hypothesis that a greater degree of product … variety relative to the United States helps to explain relative per capita GDP levels. The empirical work relies upon some …
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This paper presents a novel framework to estimate the elasticity between nighttime lights and quarterly economic activity. The relationship is identified by accounting for varying degrees of measurement errors in nighttime light data across countries. The estimated elasticity is 1.55 for...
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consumption and production and to decouple economic growth (GDP) from environmental degradation while Goal 12 focuses on … sustainable consumption and production. While GDP does not capture these broader goals, we suggest that the System of National … Accounts which incorporates but goes well beyond GDP, can be used for the measurement of these SDGs and to support policy. We …
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statistically significant output effect under floating exchange rate regimes. For the estimation of the output effects of fiscal …
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This paper presents a statistical analysis of revisions in quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) of the Group of … GDP has been weakened from the turmoil of the 2008 financial crisis. The results indicate that larger and more downward …
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This paper assesses Brazil's growth performance from a long-term perspective, using crosscountry and panel estimation …
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elasticities on a sample of 72 countries for real GDP and 28 countries for oil GDP over 6 years, I derive oil and non-oil GDP … growth for Yemen. I show that real GDP contracted by a cumulative 24 percent over 2015-17 against 50 percent according to …
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-country variations in countries' real GDP per capita to examine this issue for a large sample of advanced and developing countries. Our … increase in real GDP per capita, on average, reduces the Gini coefficient by around 0.08 percentage points, a result that is … robust across income levels, different time horizons, and alternative estimation techniques. From a policy perspective, our …
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In this paper we propose a novel approach to obtain the predictive density of global GDP growth. It hinges upon a … bottom-up probabilistic model that estimates and combines single countries' predictive GDP growth densities, taking into … the United States,the euro area, and China via a conditional kernel density estimation of a joint distribution. Then, we …
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Economic policies are often judged by a handful of statistics, some of which may be biased during periods of change. We estimate the income growth implied by the evolution of food demand and durable good ownership in post-reform Brazil and Mexico, and find that changes in consumption patterns...
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