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Accounting for unrepresentative products and urban-rural price differences in international comparisons of real income : an application to the Asia-Pacific region

Hill, Robert J.; Syed, Iqbal A. - 2012

. International Comparisons Program ; Country-Product-Dummy Method ; Price Index ; Rural-Urban Price Differences ; Representative and …

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Accounting for Unrepresentative Products and Urban-Rural Price Differences in International Comparisons of Real Income : An Application to the Asia-Pacific Region

Hill, Robert J. - 2013

The International Comparisons Program (ICP) run by the World Bank compares the purchasing power of currencies and real income across countries. Using a unique data set consisting of over 600,000 ICP price quotes drawn from nine countries in the Asia-Pacific region, we consider a number of ways...

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Trends in European Productivity and Real Exchange Rates.

Canzoneri, M.B.; Diba, B.; Eudey, G. - 1996

productivity trends for the consistency of the Maastricht convergence criteria an for the differences in nation inflation rates …Inflation has fallen dramatically in countries like Spain and Italy over the last decade, but the rate of increase in … that this discrepancy can be explained (at least in part) by trends in productivity; average labour productivity has grown …

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The inflation-productivity trade-off revisited

Bitros, George C.; Panas, Epameinondas E. - EconWPA - 2005

acceleration of inflation from 1964- 1972 to 1973-1980 reduced total factor productiv-ity growth in a way that was both … our surprise, we find that the inflation-productivity trade-off prevails even in the long run. And, fi-nally, regarding … inflation to productivity. On these grounds we conclude that for a precise estimation of the relationship under consideration it …

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Trends in European Productivity and Real Exchange Rates.

Canzoneri, Matthew B.; Diba, Behzad; Eudey, Gwen - Banco de España - 1996

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Another Look at the Inflation-Productivity Trade-Off.

Bitros, G.C.; Panas, E.J. - Department of International and European Economic … - 1999

Our aim in this paper is to test the robustness of the relation between total factor productivity growth and inflation …

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Another Look at the Inflation-Productivity Trade-Off.

Bitros, G.C.; Panas, E.J. - Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) - 1999

Our aim in this paper is to test the robustness of the relation between total factor productivity growth and inflation …

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An African growth miracle? : or: what do asset indices tell us about trends in economic performance?

Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2012 - This version: February 13, 2012

Using changes in the possession of household assets over the past 20 years, several recent papers have argued that economic performance in Arica was substantially better than suggested by national income data and income poverty statistics, who suffer from well-known weaknesses. We scrutinize...

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The relationship of economic sentiment and GDP growth in Russia in light of the Covid-19 crisis

Kitrar, Liudmila; Lipkind, Tamara - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 9 (2021) 1, pp. 7-29

Objective: The objective of the article is to prove the empirical and predictive value of the aggregate opinions of businesses and households for expanding cyclical macroeconomic data in Russia, especially during the coronavirus shocks. Research Design & Methods: We use qualitative information...

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Subnational purchasing power of parity in OECD countries : estimates based on the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis

Costa, Alex; García Villar, Jaume; Raymond Bara, José Luis - 2019

Due to the lack of Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs) at regional level, regional Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures have been traditionally adjusted using national PPPs. The simplifying assumption that all regions of a country have the same cost of living, and implicitly that there are no...

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