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Regional prices in early twentieth-century Spain: A country-product-dummy approach

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  • Alicia Gómez-Tello

    (Universitat de València, Spain)

  • Alfonso Díez-Minguela

    (Universitat de València, Spain)

  • Julio Martínez-Galarraga

    (Universitat de València, Spain)

  • Daniel A. Tirado-Fabregat

    (Universitat de València, Spain)

Abstract

This paper explores regional price variation in early twentieth-century Spain. Using consumer price information from the bulletins published by the Instituto de Reformas Sociales between 1910 and 1920, we build a dataset with a total of 40,581 quotes covering 22 items for each of the 49 provinces. We then estimate provincial price levels following a country-product-dummy (CPD)approach. Our preliminary findings suggest that substantial spatial price variation existed. In line with the Balassa-Samuelson conjecture, it appears that price and productivity levels were somewhat related. Nevertheless, spatial price variation prevails among the less industrialised provinces, and this calls for further research and discussion.

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  • Alicia Gómez-Tello & Alfonso Díez-Minguela & Julio Martínez-Galarraga & Daniel A. Tirado-Fabregat, 2018. "Regional prices in early twentieth-century Spain: A country-product-dummy approach," Documentos de Trabajo (DT-AEHE) 1802, Asociación Española de Historia Económica.
    • Handle: RePEc:ahe:dtaehe:1802
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    1. Martina Menon & Federico Perali & Ranjan Ray & Nicola Tommasi, 2019. "The Tale of the Two Italies: Regional Price Parities Accounting for Differences in the Quality of Services," Working Papers 20/2019, University of Verona, Department of Economics.
    2. Rebeca Echavarri & Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia, 2024. "Economic development, female wages and missing female births in Spain, 1900–1930," Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History, Association Française de Cliométrie (AFC), vol. 18(2), pages 335-361, May.
    3. Menon, Martina & Perali, Federico & Ray, Ranjan & Tommasi, Nicola, 2023. "Heterogeneity in prices and cost of living within a country: New evidence on the north-south divide in Italy," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 126(C).
    4. Amita Majumder & Ranjan Ray, 2020. "National and subnational purchasing power parity: a review," DECISION: Official Journal of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Springer;Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, vol. 47(2), pages 103-124, June.
    5. Alfonso Díez‐Minguela & Rafael González‐Val & Julio Martinez‐Galarraga & M. Teresa Sanchis & Daniel A. Tirado, 2020. "The long‐term relationship between economic development and regional inequality: South‐West Europe, 1860–2010," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 99(3), pages 479-508, June.

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    • E01 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts
    • N00 - Economic History - - General - - - General
    • N9 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History
    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

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