Assessing the adequacy of measures of Australia’s price competitiveness and structural change

Harding, Don (2001): Assessing the adequacy of measures of Australia’s price competitiveness and structural change. Published in: Australian Economic Review , Vol. 34, No. 4 (December 2001): pp. 458-466.

Abstract

There are a plethora of measures of Australia’s international price competitiveness. This article provides a practitioners guide to those series. The currently available measures of international price competitiveness are found to be deficient. A theoretically sound measure is suggested and computer code is supplied to construct estimates.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Institution: University of Melbourne
• Language: English
• Keywords: Exchange rates; price competitiveness; structural change
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E3 - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles > E39 - Other; F - International Economics > F3 - International Finance > F31 - Foreign Exchange; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E4 - Money and Interest Rates > E40 - General

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