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Accounting for variability in the growth rate of income

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  • Lambert, Peter J.
  • Yitzhaki, Shlomo

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The average of periodic growth rates is a downwardly biased estimator of the rate of growth of a country. The higher the variance of the periodical growth rates, the higher the downward bias. The longer the business cycle, the higher the downward bias. In this short paper, we demonstrate these facts on a number of different levels, from intuitive to quite technical. We suggest that the variability of growth rates be taken into account whenever a long term forecast is prepared.

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  • Lambert, Peter J. & Yitzhaki, Shlomo, 2015. "Accounting for variability in the growth rate of income," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 129(C), pages 71-73.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:129:y:2015:i:c:p:71-73
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.02.005
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    Keywords

    Growth rate; Individual incomes; Gross national product;
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    JEL classification:

    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
    • B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology
    • E37 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications

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