The Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis in Developed Countries and Emerging Market Economies: Different Outcomes Explained

José García Solanes and Fernando Torrejón-Flores
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No 2008-14, Economics Discussion Papers from Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)

Abstract: This paper studies the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis in two areas with strong differences in economic development, sixteen OECD countries and sixteen Latin American economies. Applying panel cointegration and bootstrapping techniques that solve for cross-sectional dependence problems in the data, we find that the second stage of the hypothesis, which relates relative sector prices with the real exchange rate, only holds in the Latin American area. The failure of the latter in the OECD countries as a whole is reflected in departures from PPP in the tradable sectors, and is probably due to segmentation between national tradable markets.

Keywords: Balassa-Samuelson effect; bootstrapping techniques; cross-sectional dependence; economic development; exchange rate systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C15 E31 F31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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