Revisiting the Balassa-Samuelson effect

This paper by the Bank for International Settlements estimates the Balassa-Samuelson effects for 11 countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

The authors use a disaggregated set of quarterly data covering the period from the mid-1990s to the first quarter of 2008.

"The Balassa-Samuelson effects are clearly present and explain around 24% of inflation differentials vis-a-vis the euro area (about 1.2 percentage points on average); and around 84% of domestic relative price differentials between non

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