Affiliation:
1. Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Abstract
This note argues that, from an economic‐statistical point of view, trading gains, as difference between real gross domestic income and real gross domestic product, may be considered as a statistical artifact; that is, trading gains vanish if a particular deflator for the trade balance is chosen.
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