Understanding PPPs and PPP-based national accounts: Comment

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 36-45

  Diewert, Erwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 85013763688     PISSN: 19457707     EISSN: 19457715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/mac.2.4.36     Document Type: Article

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