Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/259731 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Citation: 
[Journal:] Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics [ISSN:] 2235-6282 [Volume:] 155 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 1-21
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
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 do not support the BS hypothesis. For the time since the mid-1980s, we find a robust negative relationship between productivity in the tradable sector and the real exchange rate, even after including the terms of trade to control for the effects of the home bias. Earlier, supportive findings may depend on the choice of the data set and the model specification.
Subjects: 
Real exchange rate
Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis
Panel data estimation
Terms of trade
JEL: 
F14
F31
F41
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Document Type: 
Article

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