@TechReport{CEPII:2019-11,
author={Cécile Couharde and Anne-Laure Delatte and Carl Grekou and Valérie Mignon and Florian Morvillier},
title={ Measuring the Balassa-Samuelson Effect: A guidance Note on the RPROD Database},
year=2019,
month=October,
institution={CEPII},
type={Working Papers},
url={http://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/fr/publications/wp/abstract.asp?NoDoc=12359},
number={2019-11},
abstract={This guidance note outlines the construction and contents of RPROD. This new database developed by CEPII complements the EQCHANGE database, by providing additional measures of the Balassa-Samuelson effect. RPROD delivers the following indicators computed for each country included in the database, and relative to its main trading partners: (i) GDP per capita, (ii) labor productivity, (iii) consumer-price-to-producer-price ratio, (iv) three-sectors' value-added deflator, and (v) six-sectors' value-added deflator. These different measures are publicly available (http://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/fr/bdd_modele/presentation.asp?id=34), with the aim to contribute to the investigation of the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis, and to the comparison of estimated equilibrium real exchange rates and currency misalignments across alternative proxies of this effect.},
keywords={Balassa-Samuelson ; Relative Productivity ; Tradables ; Non-tradables}
}