International Price and Quantity Comparisons: Potentials and Pitfalls

American Economic Review

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 20-29

  Heston, Alan ^a   Summers, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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