Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption across Countries

We show that online prices can be used to construct quarterly purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and identical methodologies in a variety of developed and developing countries. Our results are close to those reported by the International Comparisons Program (ICP) in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cavallo, Alberto F., Diewert, W. Erwin, Feenstra, Robert C., Inklaar, Robert, Timmer, Marcel P.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Economic Association 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128893

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