Assistant Professor Luis Martinez Studies GDP Growth Rate Measurement

Harris Public Policy Assistant Professor Luis Martinez was featured in The New American, discussing his research on the inflation of GDP growth estimates in non-democratic countries.

"I estimate that most authoritarian regimes inflate yearly GDP growth rates on average by a factor of 1.15 to 1.3," wrote Martinez. "Adjustment of the GDP growth figures for manipulation changes our understanding of relative economic performance at the turn of the 21st century and downplays the apparent economic success of countries with non-democratic forms of government [i.e., China]."

Full coverage is available at The New American.