Estimating real production and expenditures across nations: A proposal for improving the penn world tables

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 201-212

  Feenstra, Robert C ^a,b,c,d   Heston, Alan ^a,b,c,d   Timmer, Marcel P ^a,b,c,d   Deng, Haiyan ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d Conference Board ^*  (United States)

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EID: 69949148376     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/rest.91.1.201     Document Type: Article

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