Nighttime lights data are a measure of economic activity whose measurement error is plausibly independent of the errors … of most conventional indicators. Therefore, we can use nighttime lights as an independent benchmark to assess existing … revisions of the PWT do not necessarily dominate their predecessors in terms of explaining nighttime lights (and thus, of …

Nighttime lights data are a measure of economic activity whose measurement error is plausibly independent of the errors … of most conventional indicators. Therefore, we can use nighttime lights as an independent benchmark to assess existing … revisions of the PWT do not necessarily dominate their predecessors in terms of explaining nighttime lights (and thus, of …

This paper constructs annual GDP estimates for Ireland (1924-47) to join the first complete official aggregates. The …

activity due to a simple redistributive effect of the intervention. The former is more likely when looking at GDP implications …

activity due to a simple redistributive effect of the intervention. The former is more likely when looking at GDP implications …

In this chapter I discuss historical estimates of GDP at both the national and the regional level, and their … societies, GDP has stronger informative power in those contexts where industry and services, and market exchange, retain the … construct GDP constant price (Laspeyres) indices (the latter issue may be less widely recognized, but it may have a remarkable …

GDP figures for Africa are unreliable. More dependable information can be found in government expenditure and … GDP by assuming no increase in output per head outside the tradable sector, for which the purchasing power of per capita … exports is accepted as a proxy. Another approach establishes an econometric association between real per capita GDP and the …

products (GDP) of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries. Through a regression model we look for a correlation between … for investors who wanted to expand and to grow their businesses. Is there a significant relationship between FDI and GDP …? What is its impact? Does FDI have a direct impact over GDP in CEE countries? …

For the period 1800 onwards, annual figures over GDP and GDP per capita for Sweden have been presented in different … studies. For the 18th century no such annual series exist. The aim of this paper is to present annual data on GDP and GDP per … based on any disaggregation of the different components of GDP. To estimate annual fluctuations, four different indicators …