The Penn-Belassa-Samuelson Effect in Developing Countries: Price and Income Revisited

Fadi Hassan

CEP Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: It is conventional wisdom that richer countries have a higher price level than poorer countries. This paper provides evidence that the price-income relationship is non-linear and that it turns negative, or at best flat, in low income countries. The result is robust along both cross-section and time-series dimensions. Additional robustness checks show that biases in PPP estimation and measurement error in low-income countries do not drive the result.

Keywords: Balassa-Samuelson; Penn effect; developing countries; non-parametric estimation; purchasing power parity; real exchange rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 F4 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-06
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