Research on Improved Methods of Estimating Production and Income Across Nations

各国生产和收入估算改进方法研究

• 批准号: 0317699
• 负责人: Robert Feenstra
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: National Bureau of Economic Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-15 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0317699&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Improved; Methods; Estimating; Production

Prop ID: 0317699 P I: Feenstra, Robert C. Organization:National Bureau of Economic Research Inc Title: Research on Improved Methods of Estimating Production and Income Across NationsThere is a demonstrated demand for internationally comparable measures of purchasing power parities (PPP) and of national accounts aggregates across space as well as time. Systematic research on comparing PPP's across countries began with the UN International Comparison Project in 1968, where benchmark comparisons were jointly directed by Irving Kravis at Penn and continued under EU, OECD and World Bank direction. An extension of this work on the expenditure side is embodied in the Penn World Tables (PWT), which includes over 20 variables covering 170 countries for some or all of the years from 1950-2000, a widely used research and teaching tool. In a parallel fashion, studies on the production side have been carried out for a large number of countries at the University of Groningen and made available for the use of researchers.The intellectual merit of this proposal is to a) more clearly distinguish conceptually and empirically between production and income of countries, drawing on the expertise of the investigators and consultants on international trade, prices, and productivity measures from the Center for International Data at the University of California, Davis and the Groningen Growth and Development Center in the Netherlands; and b) to improve the way in which price parities used in research are estimated and aggregated for expenditure and production categories, research that will additionally involve the School of Economics at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. These improvements will focus on clearly indicating the errors involved in the estimates, and providing new and/or improved measures of the economic structures of economies.The broader impacts of the research will be to a) suggest estimation techniques that would improve temporal indexes like the CPI and spatial comparisons of prices, production, and income such as those contained in PWT and which other groups like the OECD and World Bank produce; b) the proposal involves improvements in the dissemination and coverage of PWT, including additional variables, preliminary current year estimates of PPP's that will have more policy applications, and the development of interactive software that will be of use to researchers and for students as a pedagogical tool; and c) as a by-product of the research, the research centers will develop an initiative to create an archive of international prices with associated product and outlet characteristics that would be made available for users on the web.

提案 ID：0317699 P I：Feenstra，Robert C. 组织：国家经济研究局公司 标题：对各国生产和收入估算改进方法的研究 已经表明，对购买力平价 (PPP) 和跨越空间和时间的国民账户总量的国际可比衡量指标存在需求。比较各国购买力平价的系统研究始于 1968 年的联合国国际比较项目，该项目的基准比较由宾夕法尼亚大学的欧文·克拉维斯 (Irving Kravis) 联合指导，并在欧盟、经合组织和世界银行的指导下继续进行。这项工作在支出方面的延伸体现在宾夕法尼亚大学世界表（PWT）中，它包括 20 多个变量，涵盖 1950 年至 2000 年部分或全部年份的 170 个国家，是一种广泛使用的研究和教学工具。与此同时，格罗宁根大学对许多国家进行了生产方面的研究，并可供研究人员使用。该提案的智力价值在于：a) 利用加州大学戴维斯分校国际数据中心和格罗宁根增长与发展中心的国际贸易、价格和生产率衡量研究人员和顾问的专业知识，从概念和经验上更清楚地区分国家的生产和收入。 在荷兰； b) 改进研究中用于支出和生产类别的价格平价的估计和汇总方式，该研究还将涉及布里斯班昆士兰大学经济学院。这些改进将侧重于清楚地指出估计中涉及的错误，并提供新的和/或改进的经济体经济结构衡量标准。该研究的更广泛影响将是：a）提出估计技术，以改善消费者物价指数等时间指数以及价格、生产和收入的空间比较，例如PWT中包含的数据以及经合组织和世界银行等其他组织制定的数据； b) 该提案涉及改进 PWT 的传播和覆盖范围，包括附加变量、将有更多政策应用的 PPP 的本年度初步估计，以及开发可供研究人员和学生用作教学工具的交互式软件； c) 作为研究的副产品，研究中心将制定一项举措，创建一个包含相关产品和销售点特征的国际价格档案，并在网络上向用户提供。