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Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States* Open
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EXIOBASE 3: Developing a Time Series of Detailed Environmentally Extended Multi‐Regional Input‐Output Tables Open
Summary Environmentally extended multiregional input‐output (EE MRIO) tables have emerged as a key framework to provide a comprehensive description of the global economy and analyze its effects on the environment. Of the available EE MRIO …
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Ecological Footprint Accounting for Countries: Updates and Results of the National Footprint Accounts, 2012–2018 Open
Ecological Footprint accounting quantifies the supply and demand of Earth’s biocapacity. The National Footprint Accounts (NFA) are the most widely used Ecological Footprint (EF) dataset, and provide results for most countries and the world…
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Material Flow Accounting: Measuring Global Material Use for Sustainable Development Open
The growing extraction of natural resources and the waste and emissions resulting from their use are directly or indirectly responsible for humanity approaching or even surpassing critical planetary boundaries. A sound knowledge base of so…
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Underestimating the Real Growth of GDP, Personal Income, and Productivity Open
Economists have long recognized that changes in the quality of existing goods and services, along with the introduction of new goods and services, can raise grave difficulties in measuring changes in the real output of the economy. But des…
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Using massive online choice experiments to measure changes in well-being Open
Significance Gross domestic product (GDP) measures production and is not meant to measure well-being. While many people nonetheless use GDP as a proxy for well-being, consumer surplus is a better measure of consumer well-being. This is inc…
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Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States Open
This paper combines tax, survey, and national accounts data to estimate the distribution of national income in the United States since 1913.Our distributional national accounts capture 100% of national income, allowing us to compute growth…
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Objectives and challenges in the implementation of a universal pension system in France Open
The mission of the French High Commission for Pension Reform is to prepare the reform introducing a universal pension points system in France. This paper explains why implementing a universal points system in France would increase transpar…
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How Government Statistics Adjust for Potential Biases from Quality Change and New Goods in an Age of Digital Technologies: A View from the Trenches Open
A key economic indicator is real output. To get this right, we need to measure accurately both the value of nominal GDP (done by Bureau of Economic Analaysis) and key price indexes (done mostly by Bureau of Labor Statisticcs). All of us ha…
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Indian Income Inequality, 1922‐2015: From British Raj to Billionaire Raj? Open
We combine household surveys and national accounts, as well as recently released tax data to track the dynamics of Indian income inequality from 1922 to 2015. According to our benchmark estimates, the top 1 percent of earners captured less…
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Globalization and the growing defects of international economic statistics Open
Official international economic statistics are generally considered accurate and meaningful gauges of cross-border flows of trade and capital. Most data users also assume that the quality of the underlying data keeps improving over time. T…
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Defining Ecosystem Assets for Natural Capital Accounting Open
In natural capital accounting, ecosystems are assets that provide ecosystem services to people. Assets can be measured using both physical and monetary units. In the international System of Environmental-Economic Accounting, ecosystem asse…
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Towards Robust, Authoritative Assessments of Environmental Impacts Embodied in Trade: Current State and Recommendations Open
Summary Global multiregional input‐output databases (GMRIOs) became the standard tool for tracking environmental impacts through global supply chains. To date, several GMRIOs are available, but the numerical results differ. This paper cons…
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Measuring lnequality in the Middle East 1990–2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region? Open
In this paper we combine household surveys, national accounts, income tax data and wealth data in order to estimate income concentration in the Middle East for the period 1990–2016. According to our benchmark series, the Middle East appear…
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A Forensic Examination of China's National Accounts Open
China's national accounts are based on data collected by local governments. However, because local governments are rewarded for meeting growth and investment targets, they have an incentive to skew local statistics. China's National Bureau…
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A Forensic Examination of China's National Accounts Open
China's national accounts are based on data collected by local governments.However, since local governments are rewarded for meeting growth and investment targets, they have an incentive to skew local statistics.China's National Bureau of …
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Defying the Footprint Oracle: Implications of Country Resource Trends Open
Mainstream competitiveness and international development analyses pay little attention to the significance of a country’s resource security for its economic performance. This paper challenges this neglect, examining the economic implicatio…
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How Unequal is Europe? Evidence from Distributional National Accounts, 1980-2017 Open
This paper estimates the evolution of income inequality in 38 European countries from 1980 to 2017 by combining surveys, tax data and national accounts. We develop a harmonized methodology, using machine learning, nonlinear survey calibrat…
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Can potential mismeasurement of the digital economy explain the post-crisis slowdown in GDP and productivity growth? Open
The digital economy has created some new measurement challenges for macroeconomic statistics and may have exacerbated some older ones, raising some concerns about the scope and estimation of GDP. Against a backdrop of slowing rates of meas…
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New multi-regional input–output databases for Australia – enabling timely and flexible regional analysis Open
Decision-making at regional scales requires timely information. Within four months of the release of official national statistics, we have produced a time-series (2008–2015) of balanced sub-national, multi-regional supply-and-use tables (M…
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Top incomes and inequality in the UK: reconciling estimates from household survey and tax return data Open
We provide the first systematic comparison of UK inequality estimates derived from tax data (World Wealth and Income Database) and household survey data (the Households Below Average Income [HBAI] subfile of the Family Resources Survey). W…
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Creative Industries Impact on National Economy in Regard to Sub-sectors Open
This paper aims to define impact of creative industries (CI) on national economy in regard to sub-sectors. Employing systematic, logical and comparative analysis of scientific literature, as well as analysis of empirical data, authors defi…
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Accounting for land in the United States: Integrating physical land cover, land use, and monetary valuation Open
Land plays a critical role in both economic and environmental accounting. As an asset, it occupies a unique position at the intersection of the System of National Accounts (SNA), the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Central Fram…
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Full‐scale, near real‐time multi‐regional input–output table for the global emerging economies (EMERGING) Open
Multi‐regional input–output (MRIO) models are widely used to analyze the economic interdependencies between regions in the context of global trade and environmental research. MRIO tables enable us to teleconnect the sectors in different re…
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Current Disposal Practices of Unused and Expired Medicines Among General Public in Delhi and National Capital Region, India Open
Background: Stocking unused or expired medicines or donating these to others can lead to accidental or inappropriate ingestion, increasing the risk of adverse drug reaction(s) and even lead to antibiotic resistance. Further improper dispos…
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National accounts for a global economy: the case of Ireland Open
The traditional National Accounts published by the CSO need to be supplemented by satellite accounts in order to understand the globalised economy in Ireland. The existing National Accounting framework, which has provided vital information…
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Linking biodiversity into national economic accounting Open
Biodiversity underpins the supply of ecosystem services essential for well-being and economic development, yet
\nbiodiversity loss continues at a substantial rate. Linking biodiversity indicators with national economic accounts
\nprovides …
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Assessing international accounting harmonization in Latin America Open
We draw on institutional theory and interviews with key informants to assess international accounting harmonization in the 13 countries of the Group of Latin American Accounting Standards Setters (GLASS). Some GLASS countries have effected…
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Natural capital accounting perspectives: a pragmatic way forward Open
Introduction : Recent debates surrounding the application of natural capital accounting (NCA) have produced several approaches to further develop this system, as well as highlighted a number of conceptual and methodological issues that nee…
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THE ROLE OF ACCOUNTING IN PROVIDING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND NATIONAL SAFETY OF UKRAINE Open
The relevance of research is explained by the need to change the methods and organization of accounting, despite all the modern changes in economic, social and political life. The spread of information technology, intensive globalization a…