Consistent comparisons of real incomes across time and space

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL. S2, 2009, Pages 169-193

  Feenstra, Robert C ^a,b   Ma, Hong ^c   Rao, D S Prasada ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Almost Ideal Demand System; Constant Price Comparisons; National Price Based Comparisons; Nonhomothetic Preferences; Real Income Comparisons; Transitivity; Translog Expenditure Function

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449348054     PISSN: 13651005     EISSN: 14698056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1365100509090221     Document Type: Article

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