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In each country, under the assumption of competition in the labor market the wage ends up being equal to the value of the marginal product, or the sector's price times MPL. (Note that this is not necessary, just sufficient, to produce the Penn effect. What is needed is that wages are at least related
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in favour of the Balassa–Samuelson hypothesis, since supermarket beer is an easily transportable, traded good. (Although pub beer is transportable, the pub itself is not.) The BS-hypothesis explanation for the price differentials is that the 'productivity' of pub employees (in pints served per hour)
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in the north). Although the employees of southern pubs are not significantly more productive than their counterparts in the north, southern pubs must pay wages comparable to those offered by other southern firms in order to keep their staff. This results in southern pubs incurring a higher labour
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The simplest model which generates a Balassa–Samuelson effect has two countries, two goods (one tradable, and a country-specific nontradable) and one factor of production, labor. For simplicity assume that productivity, as measured by marginal product (in terms of goods produced) of labor, in the
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The vast majority of the evidence supports the HBS model. A deeper analysis of the empirical evidence shows that the strength of the results is strongly influenced by the nature of the tests and set of countries analyzed. Almost all cross-section tests confirm the model, while panel data results
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Over time, the testing of the HBS model has evolved quite dramatically. Panel data and time series techniques have crowded out old cross-section tests, demand side and terms of trade variables have emerged as explanatory variables, new econometric methodologies have replaced old ones, and recent
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problems with testing the BS-hypothesis, and the lack of strong evidence for it between modern economies may not refute it, or even imply that it produces a small effect. For instance, other effects of exchange rate movements might mask the long-term BS-hypothesis mechanism (making it harder to
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Evidence for the Penn effect is well established in today's world (and is readily observable when traveling internationally). However, the Balassa–Samuelson (BS) hypothesis implies that countries with rapidly expanding economies should tend to have more rapidly appreciating exchange rates (for
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In total, since it was (re)discovered in 1964, according to Tica and Druzic (2006) the HBS theory "has been tested 60 times in 98 countries in time series or panel analyses and in 142 countries in cross-country analyses. In these analyzed estimates, country specific HBS coefficients have been
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policy. (Lu & Yu 1999). Other mechanisms through which RERs can affect productivity growth have been advanced, such as the idea that structural transitions caused by exchange rate volatility have a disruptive effect on the real economy. There is some econometric evidence that the
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it produces. However, this reasoning is slightly different from the pure BS-hypothesis, because the goods being produced are 'traded-goods', even though protectionist measures mean that they are more expensive on the domestic market than the international market, so they will not be
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estimated 166 times in total, and at least once for 65 different countries". Many papers have been published since then. Bahmani-Oskooee and Abm (2005) & Egert, Halpern and McDonald (2006) also provide quite interesting surveys of empirical evidence on BS effect.
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it may be harder to increase the productivity in the service sector as rapidly as in mass-production, so if money exchange rates are still based on the output of mass production the differentials in price level could still be caused by the Balassa–Samuelson
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but says even countries undergoing very rapid traded-goods productivity growth only experience inflationary pressure in the 1-2% range, and inflation sources other than Balassa–Samuelson have proven more significant for past Euro converge candidates like
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says that currency depreciations can reduce growth, and that 'overvalued' currencies can contribute to domestic productivity growth by 'forcing' efficiency improvements in the tradables sector (by exposing it to international competition at unfavourable
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domestic producers import barriers are raised, allowing the local price for the traded good to rise beyond the international price. If this were a common phenomenon then one of the key assumptions of the BS-hypothesis (that traded-goods follow the
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An increase in the productivity and competitiveness of the distribution sector with respect to foreign countries leads to an appreciation of the real exchange rate, similarly to what a relative increase in the domestic productivity of tradables
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In this model, there has been no change in real economy productivities, but money price productivity in traded goods has been exogenously lowered through currency appreciation. Since capital inflow is associated with high-income states (e.g.
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detect if it exists). Exchange rate movements are believed by some to affect productivity; if this is true then regressing RER movements on differential productivity growth will be 'polluted' by a totally different relationship between the
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between relative productivity and relative prices within a country and between countries, while the interpretation of evidence for cointegration between real exchange rate and relative productivity has been much more controversial.
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Since money exchange rates will vary fully with tradable goods productivity, but average productivity varies to a lesser extent, the (real goods) productivity differential is less than the productivity differential in money
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has appreciated 14% (during the 1990s). The export sector of the Cape Verde economy suffered a similar fall in productivity during the same period, which was caused entirely by capital flows and not by the BS-effect.
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with the (highly productive) Zürich engineers, Zürich fast food employees must be paid more than Moscow fast food employees, even though the burger production rate per employee is an international constant.
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Where the subscript "t" denotes the tradables sector. Note that the lack of a country specific subscript on the price of tradables means that tradable goods prices are equalized between the two countries.
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working paper Macdonald & Ricci accept that relative productivity changes produce PPP-deviations, but argue that this is not confined to tradables versus non-tradable sectors. Quoting the abstract:
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countries have a higher ratio of service-sector to traded-goods-sector employment than low-GDP countries. If the traded/non-traded consumption ratio is also correlated with the price level, the
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There may be a causal link from exchange rates to productivity, as well as (or instead of) the opposite direction of causation (from productivity to RERs) given by the BS-hypothesis model.
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confirm the model for the majority of countries included in the tests. Although some negative results have been returned, there has been strong support for the predictions of a
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Kravis, Irving B. & Lipsey, Robert E. (1991), "The International Comparison Program: Current Status and Problems", in Hooper, Peter & Richardson, J. David (eds.),
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So with a same (world) price for tradable goods, the price of nontradable goods will be lower in the less productive country, resulting in an overall lower price level.
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is more uniform than the 'productivity' (in foreign currency earned per year) of people working in the dominant tradable sector in each region of the country (
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This is equivalent to saying that the money exchange rate exaggerates the real income, or that the price level is higher in more productive, richer, economies.
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as the traded goods' productivity gap has declined. They argue that in practise, border barriers mean that tradables appreciate with productivity, and say:
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Therefore, most of the contemporary authors (e.g.: Egert, Halpern and McDonald (2006); Drine & Rault (2002)) analyze main BS assumptions separately:
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effects, and exchange rate movements can affect the real economy and complicate the picture, a problem eliminated if comparing regions that use the same
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between developed and less developed countries in the traded goods' sectors which in turn affects wages and prices in the non-tradable goods sectors.
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Useful summary of the different Exchange Rate Equilibrium models, including Balassa–Samuelson, as models for estimating a stable Koruna/Euro level
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This explanation is similar to the BS-effect, since an industry needing protection must be measurably less productive in the world market of the
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Bahmani-Oskooee, Mohsen & Rhee, Hyun-Jae (1996), "Time-series Support for Balassa's Productivity-bias Hypothesis: Evidence from Korea",
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findings have been mixed, and partly to differentiate the model from its conclusion, modern papers tend to refer to the Balassa–Samuelson
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The fixed-productivity sectors are also the ones producing non-transportable goods (for instance haircuts) – this must be the case or the
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has become a benchmark for empirical tests. Consensus has been reached on the testing of internal and external HBS effects (vis a vis a
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MacDonald, R. & Ricci, L. (2005), "The real exchange rate and the Balassa Samuelson Effect: The Role of the Distribution Sector",
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Bahmani-Oskooee, Mohsen & Nasir, Abm (2005), "Productivity Bias Hypothesis and the Purchasing Power Parity: A Review Article",
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or PPP-deviations, persistent. The Penn effect is that PPP-deviations usually occur in the same direction: where incomes are high,
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The average asking price for a house in a prosperous city can be ten times that of an identical house in a depressed area of the
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The differential of productivities between the traded and non-traded sector and relative prices are positively correlated.
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Certain labour-intensive jobs are less responsive to productivity innovations than others. For instance, a highly skilled
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would still be observed with labour productivity rising equally fast (in identical technologies) between countries.
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does not lead to as much of an improvement in the living standard as an equal GDP increase in the non-traded sector
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As a consequence of 1, 2, & 3, there is a long-run relationship between productivity differentials and the RER.
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The BS-hypothesis would still explain the Cape Verde price index rise in its own terms if the incomes from rising
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Strauss, Jack (1999), "Productivity Differentials, the Relative Price of Nontradables and Real Exchange Rates",
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than in others. This is the ultimate source of the income differential. (Also expressed as productivity growth.)
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Officer, Lawrence H. (1976), "The Productivity Bias in Purchasing Power Parity: An Econometric Investigation",
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noise. (This noise would be an econometric problem, even assuming that the exchange rate volatility is a pure
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from exchange rates to productivity is more significant than the reverse, i.e. the BS-effect. (For instance,
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There may be some real economy border effects between countries which limit the flow of tradables or people.
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remittances on the traded-goods sector. They find that, as local incomes have risen with a doubling of
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to traded goods; so that the pure Balassa–Samuelson effect is an underestimate of likely RER changes
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Widely cited examination of the relationship between distribution-sector productivity and the effect
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Refinements to the econometric techniques and debate about alternative models are continuing in the
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are very different in many countries, whereas in a same country taxes are usually equal or similar.
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A breakdown of the demand and supply side effects on the exchange rate from rising productivity
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Suppose that country 2 is the more productive, and hence, the wealthier one. This means that
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Lu, Ding & Yu, Qiao (1999), "Hong Kong's exchange rate regime: Lessons from Singapore",
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counterpart (in burger/hour) but these jobs are services which must be performed locally.
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Productivity becomes income, so the real income varies less than the money income does.
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David, Paul A. (1972), "Just How Misleading are Official Exchange Rate Conversions?",
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local goods (which in richer countries are more expensive relative to tradables), and
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independently proposed the causal mechanism for the Penn effect in the early 1960s.
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Tendency for consumer prices to be systematically higher in more developed countries
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The next section lists some of the alternative proposals to an explanation of the
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The Balassa–Samuelson effect depends on inter-country differences in the relative
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International Economic Transactions: Issues in Measurement and Empirical Research
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sectors' productivity (at the expense of other sectors) will increase a nation's
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where "nt" denotes the nontradable sector and 1 and 2 indexes the two countries.
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Lipsey and Swedenborg (1996) show a strong correlation between the barriers to
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on agricultural imports) we should expect to see a correlation between rising
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The European Central Bank defines BS-effect from the inflation point of view
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The RER and relative prices of non-tradable goods are positively correlated.
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A typical discussion of this argument would include the following features:
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Samuelson, P. A. (1994), "Facets of Balassa-Samuelson Thirty Years Later",
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The Balassa–Samuelson effect model was developed independently in 1964 by
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is the proposition that this can be explained by the greater variation in
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and rising prices (for goods in protected industries - especially food).
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nontradable sector is equal between countries and normalized to one.
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gave "Competitive Appreciation" as the official reason for the high
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goods cannot vary greatly in price by location because buyers can
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The International Association for Research in Income and Wealth
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with links to the academic Balassa–Samuelson effect discussion
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The sector approach combined with panel data analysis and/or
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Ricardo–Viner–Harrod–Balassa–Samuelson–Penn–Bhagwati effect
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A panel data analysis of the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis
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Panel data analysis of the Balassa–Samuelson hypothesis
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Alternative, and additional causes of the Penn effect
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Equivalent Balassa–Samuelson effect within a country
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This may be treated as 787:beer is famously more expensive in the south of 1782:(1964), "Theoretical Notes on Trade Problems", 1039:to include proportionately more expenditure on 852:country) with a strong reservation against the 696:tradables, which have the same price everywhere 1692: 1341:Tica, Josip; Družić, Ivo (13 September 2006). 665:burger flipper is no more productive than his 1050:A typical labour market pattern is that high- 922:Most professional economists accept that the 1628: 1101: 182: 1580:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 1546: 1530: 1340: 1260:Journal of International Money and Finance 879:assumption is verified for tradable goods. 143:of the tradable and non-tradable sectors. 1810: 1778: 1706: 1603: 1495: 97:(PPP) (Officer 1976) is the tendency for 69:Learn how and when to remove this message 1889:Paper disputes the applicability of the 1501:The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 1360:Emigrants' Remittances And Dutch Disease 32:This article includes a list of general 1731: 1432: 1256: 1035:can change the make-up of the consumer 259:{\displaystyle MPL_{nt,1}=MPL_{nt,2}=1} 1937: 1748: 1517: 937: 654:Workers in some countries have higher 570:{\displaystyle MPL_{t,1}<MPL_{t,2}} 1563:, Sorbonne University, archived from 1466: 1302:A typical reason for, and result of, 1754:The Competitive Advantage of Nations 1671: 1525:, London: Cambridge University Press 1235:The Competitive Advantage of Nations 1171:, rather than the Balassa–Samuelson 632:{\displaystyle p_{nt,1}<p_{nt,2}} 101:to be systematically higher in more 18: 1499:(1988), "Purchasing Power Parity", 856:assumption in the tradable sector. 13: 1825:10.1111/j.1467-9396.1994.tb00041.x 1784:Review of Economics and Statistics 1771:as well as the productivity— 1665:10.1111/j.1475-4991.1996.tb00165.x 1531:Tica, J. & Druzic, I. 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