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 uses a harmonized dataset of annual nightlight to predict district-level GDP for the 64 districts of … that a simple constant elasticity relationship encapsulates the relationship between nightlights and GDP - with the former … Bangladesh as a whole. However, not all nightlights contribute to GDP, hence we only use nightlight emitted by enterprises …

appears to be behind the recent slowdown in GDP growth for both the United States and other advanced economies. When applied …

Product (GDP and GDP per capita), conventionally assimilated to economic growth and relevant macroeconomic indicators … GDP and by the change in GDP per capita that can be explained mainly for the data panel considered in the analysis, by …

In the euro area, there is mixed evidence that the GDP per capita of lower-income economies has been catching up with …

international debate on "GDP and beyond". In contrast to similar efforts displayed in previous decades, the current projects …