Measuring the Balassa-Samuelson Effect: A guidance Note on the RPROD Database
Cécile Couharde
Anne-Laure Delatte
Carl Grekou
Valérie Mignon
Florian Morvillier
Cécile Couharde
Anne-Laure Delatte
Carl Grekou
Valérie Mignon
Florian Morvillier
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- RPROD is a global database that complements EQCHANGE, by providing additional measures of the Balassa-Samuelson effect.
- RPROD includes five measures of this effect based on: the relative GDP per capita, the relative labor productivity, the relative consumer-price-to-producer-price ratio, and two relative sectoral value-added deflators.
- These measures are provided for a wide range of countries (up to 182 economies, depending on the considered indicator), spanning from 1973 to 2018 and using several weighting schemes associated with each country's main trading partners.
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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.
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