The next generation of the penn world table

American Economic Review

Volumn 105, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3150-3182

  Feenstra, Robert C ^a,b   Inklaar, Robert ^c   Timmer, Marcel P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84943595116     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: 19447981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.20130954     Document Type: Article

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