PPPS: Purchasing Power or Producing Power Parities?

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Labour Productivity of Unincorporated Sole Proprietorships and Partnerships: Impact on the Canada-United States Productivity Gap

“…The relative price index needed for this purpose is a measure of producing power parity; this is not the usual expenditure-based purchasing power parity measure that Statistics Canada produces for cross-country comparisons. The latter are derived from price data on finalexpenditure categories; they generate purchasing power parities, not producing power parities (Baldwin and Macdonald 2009). The estimates of purchasing power parities were designed to give reasonable coverage for expenditures on final goods-not for intermediate commodities or measures of value added (gross output minus materials, services, and energy inputs), where deflators are needed for both gross output and intermediate inputs.…”

Gazdasági teljesítmény és látens cserearány-javulás a piacgazdasági átmenet idején Magyarországon

“…A külkereskedelmi cserearányok változásakor szisztematikus eltérés keletkezik a termelés és a belföldi felhasználás árindexe között. Bár a nemzetközi összehasonlítási programok eredményeinek elemzésekor rendszerint szinonimaként használják azt, hogy a fejlettség a gazdasági jólétet, a termelés reálértékét vagy a termelékenység relatív szintjét fejezi-e ki, tulajdonképpen nem ugyanaz a mutató alkalmas arra, hogy kimutassa a fejlettség különböző aspektusait (Baldwin-Macdonald [2009]). Ahogyan a vásárlóerő-paritás elnevezés is jelzi, az ICP a belföldi végső felhasználási tételek árarányaiból képzett reáláron hasonlítja össze az egy főre jutó GDP szintjét.…”