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Topography, borders, and trade across Europe
Frensch, Richard; Fidrmuc, Jarko; Rindler, Michael - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 51 (2023) 3, pp. 816-832
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Land, power and technology : essays on political economy and historical development
Kitamura, Shuhei - 2016
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Natural borders
Kitamura, Shuhei; Lagerlöf, Nils-Petter - 2015
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The Topography of Nations
Allen, Treb - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
simple algorithm for its calculation. When combined with detailed spatial geography data from Europe, the equilibrium …How does the interplay of geography and political-economic forces affect the shape of nations? This paper presents a … quantitative framework for characterizing the equilibrium evolution of national boundaries in a world with a rich geography. The …
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Newer need not be better : evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators using nighttime lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2016
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 measures of economic activity (Pinkovskiy and...
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Newer need not be better : evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators using nighttime lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484175
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China's GDP growth may be understated
Clark, Hunter; Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2017
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Lights, camera ... income!: : illuminating the national accounts-household surveys debate
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - In: The quarterly journal of economics 131 (2016) 2, pp. 579-631
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Lights, camera...income! : estimating poverty using national accounts, survey means, and lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2014
In this paper, we try to understand whether measures of GDP per capita taken from the national accounts or measures of mean income or consumption derived from household surveys better proxy for true income per capita. We propose a data-driven method to assess the relative quality of GDP per...
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