GDP-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods in the Digital Economy

The authors thank Nick Bloom, Carol Corrado, Diane Coyle, Jonathan Haskel, Marshall Reinsdorf, Hal Varian, participants at the ESCoE Conference on Economic Measurement (Bank of England, May 2018), participants at the Sixth IMF Statistical Forum (IMF, November 2018), and seminar participants at BEA, Deakin University, OECD and Queensland University of Technology for helpful comments. Brynjolfsson and Collis gratefully acknowledge financial support from the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Diewert gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the SSHRC of Canada, and Fox and Diewert gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Australian Research Council (DP150100830). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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