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