The Balassa-Samuelson effect reversed: new evidence from OECD countries

Abstract This paper reconsiders the Balassa-Samuelson (BS) hypothesis. We analyze an OECD country panel from 1970 to 2008 and compare three data sets on sectoral productivity, including newly constructed data on total factor productivity. Overall, our within- and between-dimension estimation results...

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Main Authors: Matthias Gubler, Christoph Sax
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-02-01
Series:Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41937-019-0029-3