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Working Papers

2021

1. Price Levels, Size, Distribution and Growth of the World Economy: Insights from recent International Comparisons of Prices and Real Product
   PIER Working Paper Archive, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania View citations (1)
   Also in CEPA Working Papers Series, University of Queensland, School of Economics (2021) View citations (1)

2020

2. The Owner-Premium Adjustment in Housing Imputations
   BEA Working Papers, Bureau of Economic Analysis

2010

3. What Can Be Learned About the Economies of China and India from Purchasing Power Comparisons?
   Working Papers, eSocialSciences View citations (4)
   Also in Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi Working Papers, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi, India View citations (7)
   Macroeconomics Working Papers, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (2008) View citations (1)

2009

4. Understanding PPPs and PPP-based national accounts
   Working Papers, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Research Program in Development Studies. View citations (12)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2008) View citations (36)
   See also Journal Article Understanding PPPs and PPP-Based National Accounts, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Association (2010) View citations (206) (2010)

2007

5. Estimating Real Production and Expenditures Across Nations: A Proposal for Improving the Penn World Tables
   GGDC Research Memorandum, Groningen Growth and Development Centre, University of Groningen View citations (7)
   Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2007) View citations (6)
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2004) View citations (24)
   See also Journal Article Estimating Real Production and Expenditures across Nations: A Proposal for Improving the Penn World Tables, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2009) View citations (46) (2009)

2003

6. Regional Output Differences in International Perspective
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (6)

1962

7. The Demand for Cash and Working Balances of Corporations
   Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University

1961

8. Corporate Cash and Security Holdings: An Empirical Study of Cash, Securities and Other Current Accounts of Large Corporations
   Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University

Journal Articles

2017

1. Flaw of One Price; The International Comparison Program in Historical Perspective
   Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2017, 131, (1), 7-21

2013

2. In Memoriam: R obert S ummers
   Review of Income and Wealth, 2013, 59, (1), 169-172

2010

3. Understanding PPPs and PPP-Based National Accounts
   American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2, (4), 1-35 View citations (206)
   See also Working Paper Understanding PPPs and PPP-based national accounts, Working Papers (2009) View citations (12) (2009)

2009

4. Estimating Real Production and Expenditures across Nations: A Proposal for Improving the Penn World Tables
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91, (1), 201-212 View citations (46)
   See also Working Paper Estimating Real Production and Expenditures Across Nations: A Proposal for Improving the Penn World Tables, GGDC Research Memorandum (2007) View citations (7) (2007)
5. Questions about the equivalence of market rents and user costs for owner occupied housing
   Journal of Housing Economics, 2009, 18, (3), 273-279 View citations (41)

2008

6. Institutional Flaws and Corruption Incentives in India
   Journal of Development Studies, 2008, 44, (9), 1243-1261 View citations (5)

2003

7. Crusades and Jihads: a Long-run Economic Perspective
   The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2003, 588, (1), 112-135
8. Using Scanner Data to Estimate Country Price Parities: A Hedonic Regression Approach
   Review of Income and Wealth, 2003, 49, (1), 1-21 View citations (5)

2000

9. International and interarea comparisons of income, output and prices
   Journal of Asian Economics, 2000, 11, (3), 363-364 View citations (11)
   See also Book International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices, NBER Books, 1999 (1999) View citations (81) (1999)

1997

10. Measuring and analyzing aggregate fluctuations: the importance of building from microeconomic evidence - commentary
    Review, 1997, (May), 79-82

1996

11. International Price and Quantity Comparisons: Potentials and Pitfalls
    American Economic Review, 1996, 86, (2), 20-24 View citations (55)

1994

12. A brief review of some problems in using national accounts data in level of output comparisons and growth studies
    Journal of Development Economics, 1994, 44, (1), 29-52 View citations (85)
13. Income levels, growth and price structures in the ESCAP region, 1960-1990
    Journal of Asian Economics, 1994, 5, (1), 1-13 View citations (1)
14. The Differential-Productivity Hypothesis and Purchasing-Power Parties: Some New Evidence
    Review of International Economics, 1994, 2, (3), 227-43 View citations (49)

1992

15. IRVING B. KRAVIS (1917–1992)
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1992, 38, (3), 363-363

1991

16. The Penn World Table (Mark 5): An Expanded Set of International Comparisons, 1950–1988
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1991, 106, (2), 327-368 View citations (670)

1989

17. Economics
    The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1989, 501, (1), 223-230

1988

18. A NEW SET OF INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF REAL PRODUCT AND PRICE LEVELS ESTIMATES FOR 130 COUNTRIES, 1950–1985
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1988, 34, (1), 1-25 View citations (293)
19. Agrarian Bengal: Economy, Social Structure and Politics, 1919–1947. By Sugata Bose. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xii, 284. $42.50
    The Journal of Economic History, 1988, 48, (1), 199-200
20. What We Have Learned about Prices and Quantities from International Comparisons: 1987
    American Economic Review, 1988, 78, (2), 467-73 View citations (13)

1987

21. $27.00Paul Marer, Dollar GNPs of the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Lexington, Massachusetts (1986), p. xiii+229
    Journal of International Economics, 1987, 22, (3-4), 395-397
22. Africa, Asia, and Latin America
    The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1987, 491, (1), 175-177

1986

23. Book reviews: SUMIT GUHA, The Agrarian Economy of the Bombay Deccan 1818-1941. Delhi, Oxford University Press, Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, 1985, pp. 211 (with a bibliography), Rs. 145
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1986, 23, (4), 440-442
24. International Economic Indicators: A Sourcebook. By Geoffrey H. Moore and Melita H. Moore. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 373. $45.00
    The Journal of Economic History, 1986, 46, (2), 580-580

1985

25. International Relations and Politics
    The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1985, 477, (1), 150-151
26. The Economics of Camel Transport in Pakistan
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1985, 34, (1), 121-41

1984

27. An introduction to South Asia: B.H. Farmer, (Methuen, New York, 1983) pp. ix + 253
    Journal of Development Economics, 1984, 16, (3), 334-335
28. Changes in the world income distribution
    Journal of Policy Modeling, 1984, 6, (2), 237-269 View citations (20)
29. IMPROVED INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF REAL PRODUCT AND ITS COMPOSITION: 1950–1980
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1984, 30, (2), 207-219 View citations (58)
30. Public expenditure and Indian development policy, 1960-1970: John Toye, (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1981) pp. xviii + 270, $39.50
    Journal of Development Economics, 1984, 16, (3), 334-335

1983

31. A Different Perspective of Pakistan's Economy. The Structure of Expenditures and Prices, 1975-81
    The Pakistan Development Review, 1983, 22, (3), 163-177
32. The persistence of land fragmentation in peasant agriculture: An analysis of South Asian cases
    Explorations in Economic History, 1983, 20, (2), 199-220 View citations (22)

1982

33. COMMENTS ON: “SELECTED PROBLEMS OF INTERCOUNTRY COMPARISONS ON THE BASIS OF THE EXPERIENCE OF THE EEC”
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1982, 28, (4), 407-410 View citations (3)
34. CORRIGENDUM TO “NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE STRUCTURE OF THE WORLD ECONOMY”
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1982, 28, (3), 361-363

1981

35. NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE STRUCTURE OF THE WORLD ECONOMY*
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1981, 27, (4), 339-355 View citations (5)

1980

36. Classical Political Economy and British Policy in India. By S. Ambirajan. Cambridge South Asian Studies, 21. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. vii, 301. $31.00. - Land, Landlords, and the British Raj: Northern India in the Nineteenth Century. By Thoma R. Metcalf. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. Pp. xiv, 450. $22.50. - Industrialization in India: Growth and Conflict in the Private Corporate Sector, 1914–47. By Rajat K. Ray. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. xi, 384. $15.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1980, 40, (4), 900-902
37. Comparative Indian Economic Growth: 1870 to 1970
    American Economic Review, 1980, 70, (2), 96-101
38. INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF REAL PRODUCT AND ITS COMPOSITION: 1950–77
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1980, 26, (1), 19-33 View citations (9)

1979

39. Bengal Agriculture, 1920–1946: A Quantitative Study. By M. Mufakharul Islam. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xiv, 283. $29.50
    The Journal of Economic History, 1979, 39, (3), 799-800

1978

40. A Further Critique of Historical Yields Per Acre in India
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1978, 15, (2), 187-210 View citations (3)
41. Real GDP per Capita for More Than One Hundred Countries
    Economic Journal, 1978, 88, (350), 215-42 View citations (66)

1977

42. East Indian Fortunes: The British in Bengal in the Eighteenth Century. By P. J. Marshall. Oxford: At Clarendon Press, 1976. Pp. 284. $16.25. - Partner in Empire: Dwarkanath Tagore and the Age of Enterprise in Eastern India. By Blair B. Kling. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. Pp. 288. $12.50
    The Journal of Economic History, 1977, 37, (4), 1074-1076
43. The Standard of Living in Akbar's Time: A Comment
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1977, 14, (3), 391-396 View citations (5)

1973

44. A COMPARISON OF SOME SHORT‐CUT METHODS OF ESTIMATING REAL PRODUCT PER CAPITA
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1973, 19, (1), 79-104 View citations (11)
45. Official Yields Per Acre in India, 1886-1947; Some Questions of Interpretation
    The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 1973, 10, (4), 303-332 View citations (8)

1970

46. Land Control and Social Structure in Indian History. Edited by Robert Eric Frykenberg. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. Pp. xxi, 256. $10.00
    The Journal of Economic History, 1970, 30, (4), 887-888

1965

47. Growth of Commercial Agriculture in Bengal, 1757–1900. By Benoy Chowdhury. Calcutta: Quality Printers, 1964. Pp. iv, 217. Rs. 20. - Agrarian Relations and Early British Rule in India: A Case Study of Ceded and Conquered Provinces (Uttar Pradesh), 1801–1833. By Sulekh Chandra Gupta. New York: Asia Publishing House, 1963. Pp. xix, 338
    The Journal of Economic History, 1965, 25, (3), 428-430
48. Studies in the Development of Capitalism in India. By Shiva Chandra Jha. Calcutta: Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 1963. Pp. ix, 415. Rs. 20
    The Journal of Economic History, 1965, 25, (1), 158-158

Books

1999

1. International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices
   NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (81)
   See also Journal Article International and interarea comparisons of income, output and prices, Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier (2000) View citations (11) (2000)

Edited books

2000

1. International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices
   National Bureau of Economic Research Books, University of Chicago Press

Chapters

2009

1. Chaining Methods for International Real Product and Purchasing Power Comparisons: Issues and Alternatives
   Chapter 10 in Purchasing Power Parities of Currencies, 2009, pp 245-273
2. Comment on "Durables and Owner-Occupied Housing in a Consumer Price Index"
   A chapter in Price Index Concepts and Measurement, 2009, pp 500-505

1999

3. Glossary
   A chapter in International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices, 1999, pp 509-515
4. Introduction to "International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices"
   A chapter in International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices, 1999, pp 1-9 View citations (2)
5. The World Distribution of Well-being Dissected
   A chapter in International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices, 1999, pp 479-508 View citations (1)

1992

6. Measuring Final Product Services for International Comparisons
   A chapter in Output Measurement in the Service Sectors, 1992, pp 493-516 View citations (6)

1981

7. Inequality among Nations: 1950 and 1975
   Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)