Abstract
Irving Kravis is best known for his pioneering empirical estimates of country purchasing power parities (PPPs) and real products based on detailed price and expenditure comparisons. This research began in the early 1950s at the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC, now OECD) in collaboration with Milton Gilbert. It was continued on a world scale when he jointly directed the United Nations International Comparison Project from 1968 to 1982. However, these contributions were just the most notable in a career that included yeoman service to the University of Pennsylvania: in building up the Department of Economics, in serving as Associate Dean of the Wharton School and chair of the University Senate, and in active participation in many important committees of the School of Arts and Sciences and the university.
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- Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) (USA)
- Country-product dummy (CPD) method
- Exchange rates
- Income distribution
- International Comparison Programme (ICP) (UN)
- International price competitiveness
- International trade: and economic growth
- Kravis, I.
- Kuznets, S.
- Laspeyeres index
- Law of one price
- Maddison, A.
- Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OECD)
- Paasche index
- Penn World Table
- Purchasing power parity
- World Bank
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Heston, A.W. (2018). Kravis, Irving B. (1916–1992). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2039
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