Does 'aggregation bias' explain the PPP puzzle?

Pacific Economic Review

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-72

  Chen, Shiu Sheng ^a   Engel, Charles ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PURCHASING POWER PARITY;

EID: 15844420471     PISSN: 1361374X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2005.00260.x     Document Type: Article

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