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Relative Prices and Relative Prosperity [PDF]
The positive correlation between real investment rates and real income levels across countries is driven largely by differences in the price of investment relative to output. The high relative price of investment in poor countries is due to the low price of consumption goods in those countries. Investment prices are no higher in poor countries.
Chang-Tai Hsieh, Peter J. Klenow
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Pricing-to-Market, Trade Costs, and International Relative Prices [PDF]
International relative prices across industrialized countries show large and systematic deviations from relative purchasing power parity. We embed a model of imperfect competition and variable markups in a quantitative model of international trade. We find that when our model is parameterized to match salient features of the data on international trade
Andrew Atkeson, Ariel Burstein
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A new way to read the price: measuring global affordability of selected NOACs [PDF]
ObjectivesAccess to medicines is an important component of health systems, yet their affordability differs across countries. Novel oral anticoagulants are widely used in the prevention and treatment of thromboembolic disorders, but their prices may vary ...
Julia Cynar +5 more
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Inflation, Relative Prices and Nominal Rigidities [PDF]
This paper examines the distribution of Belgian consumer prices and its interaction with aggregate inflation over the period June 1976-September 2000. Given the fat-tailed nature of this distribution, both classical and robust measures of location, scale and skewness are presented. We found a positive short-run impact of the skewness of relative prices
Luc Aucremanne +4 more
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Probability Distribution Modeling of Scanner Prices and Relative Prices [PDF]
The article deals with the problem of the proper selection of the theoretical distribution to describe the empirical distribution of scanner prices. In the empirical study we use scanner data from one retail chain in Poland, i.e.
Piotr Sulewski, Jacek Białek
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Determination of the factors affecting the domestic terms of trade in greenhouse tomato production [PDF]
: Agriculture plays a leading role in the economic growth and development process. Ensuring the continuity of production depends on the purchasing power of the producers.
Fatma Dilek Metin +1 more
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Estimating the Optimal Inflation Target from Trends in Relative Prices
We derive closed-form expressions for the optimal inflation target under Calvo and menu-cost frictions in a model featuring a product life cycle and multiple sources of heterogeneity across goods.
Klaus Adam, H. Weber
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Relative Prices and Climate Policy: How the Scarcity of Nonmarket Goods Drives Policy Evaluation
Climate change not only impacts production and market consumption but also the relative scarcity of nonmarket goods, such as environmental amenities. We study fundamental drivers of the resulting relative price changes, their potential magnitude, and ...
M. Drupp, M. Hänsel
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The Relative Price of Services [PDF]
Prices of GDP relative to the exchange rate increase with income per capita, which is known as the Penn‐effect. This is generally attributed to services being cheaper relative to goods in poorer countries. In this paper we re‐examine the Penn‐effect based on a new set of PPPs for industry output.
Timmer, Marcel P., Inklaar, Robert
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Prezzi relativi e deflazione delle tabelle input-output: implicazioni per l’analisi strutturale
L’obiettivo principale di questo studio è comparare coefficienti tecnici calcolati a prezzi correnti e a prezzi deflazionati secondo tre differenti metodologie (deflatore singolo, deflatori settoriali e deflatori specifici), allo scopo di identificare l’
Patieene Alves Passoni
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