type="main" <p>We study the daily behavior of supermarket prices and product availability following two recent natural disasters: the 2010 earthquake in Chile and the 2011 earthquake in Japan. In both cases there was an immediate and persistent effect on product availability. The number of goods...</p>

Introduction / Marshall Reinsdorf and Matthew Slaughter -- Challenges in measuring trade in services -- Measuring international trade in services / Robert E. Lipsey -- Comment: J. David Richardson -- Improved measures of U.S. international services: the cases of insurance, wholesale and retail...

Calls for a more people-focused approach to statistics on economic performance, and concerns about inequality, environmental impacts, and effects of digitalization have put welfare at the top of the measurement agenda. This paper argues that economic welfare is a narrower concept than...