Measuring the Balassa-Samuelson effect: A guidance note on the RPROD database

Cécile Couharde (), Anne-Laure Delatte, Carl Grekou, Valérie Mignon () and Florian Morvillier ()

International Economics, 2020, vol. 161, issue C, 237-247

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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F31 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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