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Aggregation Issues in Integrating and Accelerating BEA's Accounts : Improved Methods for Calculating GDP by Industry
Moyer, Brian - 2005
Aggregate measures of real GDP growth obtained from the GDP by Industry Accounts often differ from the featured measure of real GDP growth obtained from the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPAs). We find that differences in source data account for most of the difference in aggregate real...
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The Growth of Nations Revisited : Global Environmental Accounting from 1998 to 2018
Mohan, Aniruddh - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481593
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Understanding PPPs and PPP-based national accounts
Deaton, Angus - 2008
, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464148
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The Digital Welfare of Nations : New Measures of Welfare Gains and Inequality
Brynjolfsson, Erik; Collis, Avinash; Liaqat, Asad; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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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Population and Welfare : The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number
Adhami, Mohamad; Bils, Mark; Jones, Charles I.; Klenow, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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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The digital welfare of nations : new measures of welfare gains and inequality
Brynjolfsson, Erik; Collis, Avinash; Liaqat, Asad; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062430
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The Next Generation of the Penn World Table
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2013
, the Penn World Table (PWT) will be taken over by the University of California, Davis and the University of Groningen, with …
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What do we Really Know about Food Security?
Cafiero, Carlo - 2013
This paper deals with two issues related to the way in which the state of food insecurity in the world can be assessed …
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Putting Things in Order : Patterns of Trade Dynamics and Growth
Feenstra, Robert C. - 1997
We develop a procedure to rank-order countries and commodities using dis-aggregated American imports data. We find strong evidence that both countries and commodities can be ranked, consistent with the product cycle' hypothesis. Countries habitually begin to export goods to the United States...
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Asymmetric Investment Rates
Bai, Hang; Li, Erica X. N.; Xue, Chen; Zhang, Lu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191052