<< N°161
| N°161 | ||
| Issue Q1 2020 | ||
| Measuring the Balassa-Samuelson effect: A guidance note on the RPROD database | ||
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Cécile Couharde Anne-Laure Delatte Carl Grekou Valérie Mignon Florian Morvillier |
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| 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. |
Abstract |
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| Balassa-Samuelson ; Relative productivity ; Tradables ; Non-tradables ; | Keywords | |
| F31 ; F41 ; | JEL classification | |
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