Measuring Quarterly Economic Growth from Outer Space /

This paper presents a novel framework to estimate the elasticity between nighttime lights and quarterly economic activity. The relationship is identified by accounting for varying degrees of measurement errors in nighttime light data across countries. The estimated elasticity is 1.55 for emerging ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beyer, Robert
Other Authors: Hu, Yingyao, Yao, Jiaxiong.
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2022.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2022/109
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