Widely used 'purchasing power parity' comparisons of per capital GDP are not true quantity indexes and are subject to systematic substitution bias. This bias may distort measurement of convergence and divergence. Extending Hal R. Varian's nonparametric construction of a true index gives the set...

In recent years, the expected utility model of choice under risk has been generalized to cope with phenomena such as probability weighting. In the present paper, one such generalized approach, the rank-dependent expected utility model, is applied to the problem of lottery gambling. The model is...

Considerable attention has been paid to the hypothesis, advanced by M. Olson, that accumulations of interest groups build up over time and retard economic performance. Most previous tests of this hypothesis have been based on comparisons of growth rates. In this paper, it is argued that...