The relative price of services

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 727-746

  Inklaar, Robert ^a   Timmer, Marcel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Geary Khamis system; Penn effect; PPP; Prices; Services

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920381768     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: 14754991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12012     Document Type: Article

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