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

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

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Harding, Don

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Don Harding

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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.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 3383.

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Date of creation: Sep 2001
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Publication status: Published in Australian Economic Review 4.34(2001): pp. 458-466
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- Don Harding, 2001. "Assessing the Adequacy of Measures of Australia's Price Competitiveness and Structural Change," Australian Economic Review, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, vol. 34(4), pages 458-466. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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