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 ...

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Seriously. How are you feeling about your economic situation? Because the unemployment rate is still near generational lows, inflation is down to 3.2%, and gross domestic product, or GDP, grew at a ...

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Cristina D'Alessandro is currently an officer at the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies, mentioned in the article, but in a different field to the one covered in the text: she deals ...

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Is AI transforming the economy in any real sense, or is the promise of rapid growth mere hype? US stock markets certainly favour the former view: shares of AI and tech companies have accounted for ...

Gross domestic product continues to serve as the go-to metric for measuring national economies. It's cited in times of expansion and recession, and followed closely by economists around the world. Yet ...

A senior Labour shadow minister has suggested that the party could adopt a radically different approach to measuring the health of the economy, amid growing pressure worldwide to ditch GDP as a ...