利用卫星灯光数据估算xx的gdp增长率（英文）-45页.pdfVIP

NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CHINAS GDP GROWTH MAY BE UNDERSTATED Hunter Clark Maxim Pinkovskiy Xavier Sala-i-Martin Working Paper 23323 /papers/w23323 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April 2017 We are very grateful to Michelle Jiang, Lauren Price and Rachel Schuh for superb research assistance. This paper reflects solely the opinions of the authors and not necessarily of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Reserve System, or the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications. © 2017 by Hunter Clark, Maxim Pinkovskiy, and Xavier Sala-i-Martin. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source. Chinas GDP Growth May be Understated Hunter Clark, Maxim Pinkovskiy, and Xavier Sala-i-Martin NBER Working Paper No. 23323 April 2017 JEL No. F0 ABSTRACT Concerns about the quality of China’s official GDP statistics have been a perennial question in understanding its economic dynamics. We use data on satellite-recorded nighttime lights as an independent benchmark for comparing various published indicators of the state of th