Trading gains: new estimates of swiss gdp, 1851 to 2008

Christian Stohr

No unige:86942, Working Papers from University of Geneva, Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History

Abstract: This paper revises Swiss GDP emphasizing the difference between single and double deflation, which depends on trading gains: i.e. gains from terms of trade and from the real exchange rate. These gains contributed significantly to Swiss economic growth between 1930 and 1990. Earlier series of Swiss GDP have neglected trading gains. In backward projections, this leads to overestimation of GDP (per capita) levels. The Maddison database (Bolt & Zanden 2014), for example, suggests that Swiss GDP per capita was 38 percent above that of the USA in 1875. My series shows that Swiss GDP per capita was still below the Western European average.

Keywords: Historical National Accounts; Gross Domestic Income; Double Deflation; Real Exchange Rate; Terms of Trade; Switzerland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C82 E01 N13 N14 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 67 p.
Date: 2016
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