paper, we build on Hsieh et al. (2019) to provide a methodology to quantify these productivity consequences. The index we … propose, the "Global Gender Distortions Index (GGDI)", measures the losses in aggregate productivity that gender …-based misallocation imposes. Our index allows us to separately identify labor demand distortions (e.g., discrimination in hiring for …

This paper finds that, concurrent with the rapid growing index investment in commodities markets since early 2000s …

relevant relative prices for a consumer who lives for many periods. The paper proposes a dynamic price index (DPI) that solves …

The standard source for pre-WWII global freight rate trends is the Isserlis British tramp shipping index. We think it … transported. Previous scholars have deflated their nominal freight rate indices by a price index that includes tradables not …

A major shortcoming of the U.S. leading index is that it does not use the most recent information for stock prices and … yield spreads. The index methodology ignores these data in favor of a time-consistent set of components (i.e., all of the … forecasts and create an index with a complete set of most recent components. This study uses tests of ex-ante predictive ability …

This paper describes a new, industry-adjusted index of state environmental compliance costs from 1977 to 1994. The … index has two principal advantages: it controls for states' industrial compositions, and it can be calculated for 17 years … and 1994. Third, this cost index is negatively correlated with subjective indices of state environmental efforts compiled …