The paper surveys empirical evidence on the Harrod-Balassa-Samuelson effect. The survey encompasses the published … Harrod-Balassa-Samuelson effect. …

real misalignments reported in the literature depend on the underlying theoretical approach (Balassa-Samuelson effect …

Balassa-Samuelson proposition, which states that faster growth in the traded goods sector than in the non-traded goods sector … is to construct a small open economy model that enables examination of the effects of Balassa-Samuelson-type growth in an …

an updated Balassa-Samuelson model inspired by recent developments in trade theory, where a continuum of goods are … likely to become tradable and crowd out firms not experiencing productivity gains. As a result the usual Balassa-Samuelson … assumption—that productivity gains be concentrated in the traded goods sector—emerges endogenously, and the Balassa-Samuelson …