This paper theoretically and empirically reevaluates price policy associated with deflation using the Balassa-Samuelson theory (Balassa (1964), Samuelson (1964)). The theoretical model developed in this paper shows the relative price level (or real exchange rate) between two countries is...

This paper reconsiders the Balassa-Samuelson (BS) hypothesis. We analyze an OECD country panel from 1970 to 2008 and compare three data sets on sectoral productivity, including newly constructed data on total factor productivity. Overall, our within- and between-dimension estimation results do...