Search Results - subject:"Balassa–Samuelson effect"

Il costo della vita al Nord e al Sud d'Italia dal dopoguerra a oggi. Stime di prima generazione.

Amendola, Nicola; Vecchi, Giovanni; Al Kiswani, Bilal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Despite the fact that in 2011 Italy will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its political unification, geographical disparities stand out as a prominent characteristic of the country. The paper estimates the trend of the cost-of-living differentials across regions in the half-century after the...

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A Test of the Balassa-Samuelson Effect Applied to Chinese Regional Data

Guo, Qian; Hall, Stephen G. - In: Journal for Economic Forecasting (2010) 2, pp. 57-78

In this paper, we investigate the relevance of the Balassa-Samuelson effect to the determination of regional inflation … shows that our extended theoretical model is a good empirical representation of the Chinese data that supports the Balassa-Samuelson … effect. Moreover, we are able to test the Asea and Mendoza (1994) version of our general model and find that the restrictions …

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Why Are Goods Cheaper in Rich Countries? Beyond the Balassa-Samuelson Effect

Podkaminer, Leon - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2010

Relative to consumer services, consumer goods tend to be cheaper in richer European countries. This tendency, customarily explained in terms of cost developments and/or foreign-trade considerations, can be a reflection of a demand-side regularity. An econometrically specified cross-country...

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Why Are Goods Cheaper in Rich Countries? Beyond the Balassa-Samuelson Effect

Podkaminer, Leon - 2010

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Discrepancies between Purchasing Power Parities and Exchange Rates under the Law of One Price: A Puzzle (partly) Explained?

Podkaminer, Leon - 2010

European Comparison Project data (years 1999-2008) are used for an estimation of cross-country systems (AIDS) of consumer demand functions defined over durable and non-durable tradable goods and non-tradable services. General exchange equilibrium models of inter-EU trade generate equalized...

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Productivity, External Balance and Exchange Rates : Evidence on the Transmission Mechanism Among G7 Countries

Corsetti, Giancarlo - 2010

This paper investigates the international transmission of productivity shocks in a sample of five G7 countries. For each country, using long-run restrictions, we identify shocks that increase permanently domestic labor productivity in manufacturing (our measure of tradables) relative to an...

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The Harrod-Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis : Real Exchange Rates and their Long-Run Equilibrium

Chong, Yanping - 2010

Frictionless, perfectly competitive traded-goods markets justify thinking of purchasing power parity (PPP) as the main driver of exchange rates in the long-run. But differences in the traded/non-traded sectors of economies tend to be persistent and affect movements in local price levels in ways...

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Structural Change in OECD Comparative Advantage

Brakman, Steven - 2010

In the post-war period, the goods composition of trade in OECD countries has changed considerably. We analyze the evolution of comparative advantage using a detailed trade data set and a new analytical tool: the harmonic (weighted) mass index, which enables us to identify periods of structural...

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The Harrod-Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis : Real Exchange Rates and Their Long-Run Equilibrium

Yanping, Chong - 2010

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Can We Identify Balassa-Samuelson Effects with Measures of Product Variety?

Frensch, Richard - 2010

The Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis – i.e. that real exchange rates between each pair of countries increase with the tradables sector productivities ratio between these countries, and decrease with their non-tradables sector productivities ratio – has been one of the most prominent frameworks...

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