TY - CEPII
A1 - Cécile Couharde
A1 - Anne-Laure Delatte
A1 - Carl Grekou
A1 - Valérie Mignon
A1 - Florian Morvillier
TI - Measuring the Balassa-Samuelson Effect: A guidance Note on the RPROD Database
IS - 2019-11
T3 - Working Papers
KW - Balassa-Samuelson
KW - Relative Productivity
KW - Tradables
KW - Non-tradables
N2 - 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.
ER -