Old and new problems in the estimation of national accounts in transition economies

Economics of Transition

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 131-146

  Bartholdy, Kasper ^a  

^a Credit Suisse group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

National accounts; Real GDP; Reliablility; Transition

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC TRANSITION; NATIONAL ACCOUNTS;

EUROPE;

EID: 0031399992     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0351.1997.tb00007.x     Document Type: Article

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