Author： Pattichis Charalambos Kanaan Mona
Publisher： Springer Publishing Company
ISSN： 0923-7992
Source： Open Economies Review, Vol.15, Iss.1, 2004-01, pp. : 45-56
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Abstract
Focusing on a small open economy, this paper provides very supportive evidence for the Balassa-Samuelson productivity-bias proposition. Using a battery of tests we show that a positive and significant long run relationship exists between the relative price of nontraded goods and real income per capita. An implication of this result is that the prices of services in Cyprus will rise, if EU membership leads to income convergence with the rest of the EU. We have, furthermore, demonstrated that Rogoff's hypothesis, that real oil price changes negatively affect the price of nontradables, is supported by the empirical results.
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