This paper studies the Balassa-Samuelson effect in nine Central and East European countries. Using panel cointegration techniques, we find that productivity growth in the open sector leads to inflation in non-tradable goods. Because of the low share of non-tradables and the high share of food...

L’objet de cet article est d’utiliser les développements récents de l’économétrie des panels dynamiques non stationnaires afin d’examiner la robustesse du concept de PPA pour un échantillon de 73 pays développés et en développement. Nos investigations révèlent que la forme...

In this study we show that French foreign investment from the end of the nineteenth century until the eve of the First World War was driven by economic and financial considerations. This refutes the hitherto accepted thesis that French capital exports were motivated by diplomatic and political...

This paper extends the result for non-causality and strong-exogeneity of Pradel and Rault (2003) Exogeneity in VAR-ECM models with purely exogenous long-run paths”, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics to weak-exogeneity. More precisely, it provides a necessary and sufficient condition...