Bergin, Paul R. (contributor); Glick, Reuven (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
price levels than poorer countries, a stylized fact usually attributed to the “Balassa-
Samuelson” effect. But looking back … a fact. Many different, and mutually
exclusive, sufficiency conditions could lead to it. The Penn [Balassa-Samuelson … different times and places, trace to quite different process, as we shall see.
(Samuelson 1994, 206)
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1. Introduction …