Economic Measurement and the Bias in Policy Choice

Gareth Myles ()

Discussion Papers from University of Exeter, Department of Economics

Abstract: The level of economic activity is never measured perfectly because of the problems of definition, inaccuracies in data collection and the existence of the hidden economy. Such mismeasurement implies that government policies based on official statistics can be optimal only by chance. The analysis formalises this observation in a two-sector economy and attempts to quantify the direction and extent of the bias introduced into policy by the failure to account for the true size of the economy.

Keywords: ECONOMIC; POLICY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E61 H21 H26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 1995
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