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surrender export proceedings. Robustness This section examines the robustness of the basic results to changes in measurement of … of the exchange rate regime requires treatment of measurement issues that is outside the scope of this article. In …
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This article provides evidence of a link between specialization patterns-in intermediate inputs or final goods-and business cycle correlations: countries with a similar intermediate goods content of exports tend to have more correlated gross domestic product fluctuations and external balances....
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The post-World War II period has seen substantial changes in the distribution of GDP per worker around the world. In … these changes is a movement in the shape of the world income distribution from something that looks like a normal …
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This chapter covers the theory and methods for productivity measurement for nations. Labor, multifactor and total …
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Nighttime lights data are a measure of economic activity whose measurement error is plausibly independent of the errors … Penn World Tables (PWT) and of the World Development Indicators (WDI) better estimate true income per capita. We find that … constant-price series in both PWT 8.0 and PWT 8.1, the two most recent vintages of the PWT. We additionally find that the World …
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We (a) propose an implementable innovation index, (b) relate it to existing innovation definitions and (c) show whole-economy and industry-specific results for the UK market sector, 2000-2005. Our innovation measure starts by observing that we could get more GDP without innovation by simply...
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