purchasing power parity

Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead

by Kenneth Rogoff  · 27 Feb 2025  · 330pp  · 127,791 words

Tables (PPP rates). A line graph illustrates the global GDP shares from 1950 to 2025, comparing data based on market exchange rates (solid line) and purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates (dashed line). The vertical axis represents the global GDP share in percent, ranging from 16 percent to 48 percent in increments of

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. All values are approximate. Figure 2 also shows a second way to measure the size of the U.S. economy. That method uses artificially constructed purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates, which attempt to use a common set of prices to better compare living standards. The United States’ decline is sharper by the

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barely more than a generation, per capita GDP rose from just over 20 percent to over 80 percent of U.S. levels, as measured using purchasing power parity weights.12 If one instead uses market exchange rates (perhaps less meaningful for asking about the welfare of the average consumer), Japan’s per capita

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United States—certainly, world stock market and real estate investors thought so—it clearly is not anymore. Today, per capita GDP in Japan, measured at purchasing power parity exchange rates, is only 63 percent of U.S. per capita GDP,35 a quantum fall from the over 80 percent level it once reached

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.S. per capita GDP, depending on what measure one uses. The progress has since stalled or worse, except for Germany. As figure 7 illustrates using purchasing power parity exchange rates, Germany’s per capita GDP today is just over 80 percent of the United States’, Italy’s is below 70 percent, and France

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of the nineteenth century, although China started from a lower base. China’s per capita income relative to that of the United States (calculated using purchasing power parity exchange rates) rose almost fivefold, from 5 percent of U.S. per capita income in 1980 to 22 percent in 2019, as illustrated in figure

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8.6 And that is during a period when U.S. per capita GDP itself doubled. If one uses purchasing power parity weights, then, on the basis of overall GDP, China has already overtaken the United States as the world’s largest economy. But if one uses

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looks a bit less otherworldly using the latest version of the Penn World Tables, which attempt to measure growth using international prices (that is, at purchasing power parity exchange rates). The Penn World Tables data suggest 7.1 percent growth from 1980 to 2012 and 3.5 percent growth from 2013 to 2019

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three trends from 1950 to 2025: the U.S. share of global GDP at market exchange rates, the U.S. share of global GDP at purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates, and foreign holdings of U.S. debt as a percentage of GDP. The vertical axis represents percentages, ranging from 0 to 48

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sensitive at any point in time to the value of the dollar. Other countries’ incomes are converted to dollars at market exchange rates and at purchasing power parity exchange rates. The reader should note the same databases, the Total Economy Database and the Penn World Tables, are referred to later in this book

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exceptions, and it most typically shows up strongly only in exceptionally fast-growing economies; 1950s–1980s Japan is the canonical example. See Kenneth Rogoff, “The Purchasing Power Parity Puzzle,” Journal of Economic Literature 34, no. 2 (June 1996): 647–668. 13. Kevin Honglin Zhang and Shunfeng Song, “Rural–Urban Migration and Urbanization in

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Models of the Seventies: Do They Fit Out of Sample?,” Journal of International Economics 14, nos. 1–2 (February 1983): 3–24. Another was the purchasing power parity puzzle. Empirically, after a shock to the real exchange rate (the nominal exchange rate adjusted for price differentials), it takes on average three years for

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half the shock to dissipate, whether through nominal exchange rate or relative price adjustment. See Kenneth Rogoff, “The Purchasing Power Parity Puzzle,” Journal of Economic Literature 34, no. 2 (June 1996): 647–668. Oleg’s work with Dimitri Mukhin suggested that a significant share of the

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, 61, 119, 330 n.20 Powell, Jay (Chair, Federal Reserve Board), 247, 248 Prahalad, C. K., 27 Prescott, Edward, 225 “Rules Rather than Discretion,” 251 purchasing power parity (PPP), 7, 38, 50, 67, 307 n.1 Putin, Vladimir (President, Russian Federation), 22, 24, 118 Queen’s Gambit, The, 58, 260 Rachel, Lukasz: “Secular

Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns

by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton  · 3 Feb 2002  · 353pp  · 148,895 words

-currency returns 74 91 7.1 Long-run exchange rate behavior 91 7.2 The international monetary system 93 7.3 Long-run purchasing power parity 95 7.4 Deviations from purchasing power parity 96 7.5 Volatility of exchange rates 98 7.6 Common-currency returns on bonds and equities 100 7.7 Summary 103

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course of the 101 years from 1900–2000. Chapter 1 Introduction and overview 7 Chapter 7 also examines the extent to which purchasing power parity has held over the long run. Purchasing power parity implies that goods and services will have a similar price experience in different countries, but this is a poor description of year

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.2 by a review of the evolution of the international monetary system. In section 7.3 we turn to evidence on long-run purchasing power parity, and discuss deviations from purchasing power parity in section 7.4. In section 7.5 we examine the volatility of real exchange rates. We then present real, common-currency returns

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on equities and bonds in section 7.6. We then summarize our discussion of exchange rates, purchasing power parity, and common-currency returns in section 7.7. 7.1 Long-run exchange rate behavior Figure 7-1 compares the exchange rates against the US

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floating rate system, make it appropriate to look in more detail at the evolution of exchange rates over the last century. 7.3 Long-run purchasing power parity Figure 7-3 plots the exchange rate between US dollars and British pounds. The vertical axis shows the number of dollars required to purchase £1

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has been roughly constant. There has been much debate about the extent to which exchange rates reflect inflation rates. An extreme viewpoint would be that purchasing power parity (PPP) holds absolutely. That is, exchange-adjusted prices for goods and services are identical all over the world, and a unit of local currency should

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1930 1940 1950 1960 Start of year 1970 1980 1990 2000 96 Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns Figure 7-4: Purchasing power parity over the period 1900–2000 10 Annualized change in exchange rate relative to US dollar (%) 5 0 -5 1900–19 1920–39 1940–59 1960

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measured are 1900–19, 1920–39, 1940–59, 1960–79 and 1980–2000, so the scatter diagram contains seventy-five observations. 7.4 Deviations from purchasing power parity Although most tests of relative PPP support its validity over the long term, departures from parity often last for quite a number of years. Such

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half-century as well. Only the Swiss franc and the Dutch guilder proved stronger than the dollar, and the guilder by only a slight margin. Purchasing power parity (PPP), which asserts that goods and services will have a similar price experience in different countries, is a poor description of year-to-year foreign

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reduce the cost of capital, and it may well be misunderstood in the market. Finally, we reflect on the evidence presented in chapter 7 on purchasing power parity. In the long run, exchange rates can be expected to adjust to reflect relative inflation rates. In integrated global markets, foreign exchange exposure therefore contributes

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, Brace and World Switzer, L., 2000, An equally weighted index of Montreal stock prices 1900–1914. Unpublished note Taylor, A.M., 2001, A century of purchasing power parity. Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming Thomas, W.A., 1986, The Stock Exchanges of Ireland. NH: Francis Cairns Publications Timmermann, A., 1992, Udviklingen i de

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, 222 Portfolio risk, 108 338 Portugal, 20 Prescott, E., 180, 202 Primary market, 18–9 Privatization, 25, 26 Productivity, 43, 48, 97, 189, 223, 224 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), 7, 91, 95–104, 219 Railroads, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 28, 37, 168 Rajan, R.G., 22 Ramaswamy, K., 140 Random walk, 153

Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies

by Tim Koller, McKinsey, Company Inc., Marc Goedhart, David Wessels, Barbara Schwimmer and Franziska Manoury  · 16 Aug 2015  · 892pp  · 91,000 words

estimate the cost of capital for cross-border investments. Global CAPM The disagreement between investors about the return and risk of international investments disappears if purchasing power parity (PPP) holds across all currencies. In that case, changes in exchange rates perfectly match differences in inflation between currencies:2 ( Xt = Xt−1 where 1

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will be the same for all investors, regardless of their domestic currency. In this 2 Technically, this is so-called relative purchasing power parity, referring to changes in prices and exchange rates. Absolute purchasing power parity requires that prices be the same across currencies (see, for example, Brealey et al., Principles of Corporate Finance, chap. 27

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adjust for differences in inflation between countries, although not immediately and perfectly. 3 For an overview, see A. M. Taylor and M. P. Taylor, “The Purchasing Power Parity Debate,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 18, no. 4 (Fall 2004): 135–158. ESTIMATING THE COST OF CAPITAL 497 For investors and companies able to invest

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-free rate in currency A f ,t A rM,t = realized return for global market portfolio in currency A If the international Fisher relation and purchasing power parity would hold, differences in international interest rates would reflect differences in inflation across countries; and differences in inflation across countries would also be reflected in

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capital for investments in foreign currency and otherwise identical investments in domestic currency. First of all, price fluctuations tend to mitigate currency fluctuations because of purchasing power parity. Second, currency risk is largely diversifiable for companies and shareholders. Any remaining risk from currency rate changes is best reflected in the cash flow projections

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most of those years, the value of those assets would have been within 20 percent of the original investment measured in U.S. dollars, as purchasing power parity kept the currency rate in line with inflation differences over the long term. Nevertheless, there would be significant deviations in other years. For example, at

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versus an index of foreign currencies with more dampened deviations from PPP, at least for the past 20 years (see Exhibit 23.5). Analysis of purchasing power parity indicates that in general, currencies INCORPORATING FOREIGN-CURRENCY RISK IN THE VALUATION 505 Brazilian Inflation-Adjusted Exchange Rates EXHIBIT 23.5 Real exchange rate (RER

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Settlements. indeed revert to parity levels following changes in relative rates of inflation, but not immediately.14 Short-term deviations from exchange rates that give purchasing power parity potentially leave corporations exposed to real-terms currency risk. However, shareholders are typically able to diversify this risk. To see how, consider Exhibit 23.6

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adjust the cost of capital, but instead prepare cash flow projections for one or more currency scenarios as follows. 14 See Taylor and Taylor, “The Purchasing Power Parity Debate.” 506 CROSS-BORDER VALUATION EXHIBIT 23.6 Diversification of Real Currency Risk 10-year monthly real exchange rate1 volatility, % Individual currencies Argentina 28.4

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the company. Exchange rates are one parameter that deserves special attention. Although exchange rates converge to purchasing power parity (PPP) in the long run,3 3 For an overview, see A. M. Taylor and M. P. Taylor, “The Purchasing Power Parity Debate,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 18, no. 4 (Fall 2004): 135–158. 708 EMERGING MARKETS

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cost of capital that includes a country risk premium, and another valuation based on multiples. REVIEW QUESTIONS 729 REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. Define purchasing power parity. What is the importance of purchasing power parity when you are trying to establish value for a company located in an emerging market? 2. Identify four risks associated with emerging markets

Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards

by Antti Ilmanen  · 4 Apr 2011  · 1,088pp  · 228,743 words

include• Carry plus value. One could proxy E(ΔS) with some expected normalization toward a “fair value” exchange rate that can be estimated based on purchasing power parity (PPP) or other valuation models. Or one could use valuation filters that rule out carry trading when it conflicts with extreme mispricing signals. • Carry plus

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ante FX premia) have been documented, and certain indicators are able to contemporaneously explain FX moves. Inflation differentials across countries influence exchange rate changes, but purchasing power parity holds only approximately and even then only in the very long run. Relative interest rates (levels and changes, short and long, nominal and real) have

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that markets view any rise in inflation as temporary and expect it to trigger policy tightening, higher inflation may result in short-term currency appreciation. Purchasing power parity does not hold in the short term but works reasonably well over long horizons. In the case of hyperinflation, in particular, exchange rate changes tend

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in Sections 11.2, 11.3, and 13.3. Value is typically based on deviation of current market price from some valuation anchor (such as purchasing power parity for currencies or rental income for real estate). In the absence of better value anchors, investors may use average real market price over the past

Efficiently Inefficient: How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined

by Lasse Heje Pedersen  · 12 Apr 2015  · 504pp  · 139,137 words

the basis of the currency carry trade, as discussed further below. To get an idea of the long-run return of a currency, note that purchasing power parity (PPP) holds approximately in the long run. That is, while the real price of a car is not exactly the same in different countries, the

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low price-to-book ratios while shorting equity indices with high ones. • Currency value trade: For currencies, one measure of value can be derived using purchasing power parity (PPP). PPP says that goods should cost the same in all countries. Hence, if a burger (or a diversified basket of goods) costs more in

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–48, 50. See also rebalancing of portfolio portfolio sort, as predictive regression, 51–53 position limits, 55, 60 post–earnings-announcement drift, 41 PPP. See purchasing power parity (PPP) predatory trading, 83–84 predictive regression, 50–53 preferred habitat theory, 249 present value model. See dividend discount model price. See market price price

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horizon for observing, 33t, 34–35 profit sources, from trading strategies, 39–46, 40f proportional transaction costs, 65 “pump and dump” schemes, 107–8, 123 purchasing power parity (PPP), 182–83; trading based on, 197, 197n put-call parity, 236, 236n2 put options, 235–36; demand pressure for, 46, 240; implied volatilities of

The Rise of Carry: The Dangerous Consequences of Volatility Suppression and the New Financial Order of Decaying Growth and Recurring Crisis

by Tim Lee, Jamie Lee and Kevin Coldiron  · 13 Dec 2019  · 241pp  · 81,805 words

indicators also highlight the differences— from a currency carry perspective—between the 1997–1998 Asian crisis and the 2007–2008 global crisis. Simple fair value (purchasing power parity) analysis suggests that during the Asian crisis the currencies of the crisis countries fell to severely undervalued levels, at which they remained for a long

Principles of Corporate Finance

by Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers and Franklin Allen  · 15 Feb 2014

bought more cheaply in the United States will be exported, and that will force down the price of the foreign products. This is often called purchasing power parity.7 Just as the price of goods in Walmart stores must be roughly the same as the price of goods in Target, so the price

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of goods in Ruritania when converted into dollars must be roughly the same as the price in the United States: Purchasing power parity implies that any differences in the rates of inflation will be offset by a change in the exchange rate. For example, if prices are rising

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11.1% in Ruritania, the number of pesos that you can buy for $1 must rise by 1.111/1.01 – 1, or 10%. Therefore purchasing power parity says that to estimate changes in the spot rate of exchange, you need to estimate differences in inflation rates:8 In our example, Interest Rates

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1985 reflects the total failure of the forward rate to anticipate the 34% rise in the value of sterling. 3. Purchasing Power Parity Theory What about the third side of our quadrilateral—purchasing power parity theory? No one who has compared prices in foreign stores with prices at home really believes that prices are the same

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the relationship is far from exact, large differences in inflation rates are generally accompanied by an offsetting change in the exchange rate.13 Strictly speaking, purchasing power parity theory implies that the differential inflation rate is always identical to the change in the spot rate. But we don’t need to go as

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practice forward rates seem to incorporate a risk premium, but this premium is about equally likely to be negative as positive. In its strict form, purchasing power parity states that $1 must have the same purchasing power in every country. That doesn’t square well with the facts, for differences in inflation rates

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–742. Interest rate parity K. Clinton, “Transaction Costs and Covered Interest Arbitrage: Theory and Evidence,” Journal of Political Economy 96 (April 1988), pp. 358–370. Purchasing power parity K. Froot and K. Rogoff, “Perspectives on PPP and Long-run Real Exchange Rates,” in G. Grossman and K. Rogoff (eds.), Handbook of International Economics

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(Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1995). K. Rogoff, “The Purchasing Power Parity Puzzle,” Review of Economic Literature 34 (June 1996), pp. 667–668. A. M. Taylor and M. P. Taylor, “The Purchasing Power Parity Debate,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 18 (Autumn 2004), pp. 135–158. ● ● ● ● ● PROBLEM SETS Select problems

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interest rate on yen? f. According to the expectations theory, what is the expected spot rate for yen in three months’ time? g. According to purchasing power parity theory, what then is the expected difference in the three-month rate of price inflation in the United States and Japan? 2. Terminology Define each

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in a sentence or simple equation: a. Interest rate parity. b. Expectations theory of forward rates. c. Purchasing power parity. d. International capital market equilibrium (relationship of real and nominal interest rates in different countries). 3. Purchasing power parity In March 1997 the exchange rate for the Indonesian rupiah was R2,419 = $1. Inflation in the

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year to March 1998 was about 30% in Indonesia and 2% in the United States. a. If purchasing power parity held, what should have been the nominal exchange rate in March 1998? b. The actual exchange rate in March 1998 (in the middle of the

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that we described in Chapter 26. 6See Chapter 26 for a further discussion of the difference between forward and futures contracts. 7Economists use the term purchasing power parity to refer to the notion that the level of prices of goods in general must be the same in the two countries. They tend to

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the price of a single good. 8In other words, the expected difference in inflation rates equals the expected change in the exchange rate. Strictly interpreted, purchasing power parity also implies that the actual difference in the inflation rates always equals the actual change in the exchange rate. 9In Section 3-5 we discussed

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States. The inflation-adjusted, or real, exchange rate is unchanged at 15To put it another way, the hedge ratio is 1.0. 16Of course, if purchasing power parity always held, the fall in the value of the krona would be matched by higher inflation in Sweden. The risk for Outland is that the

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offers, 385–387 international security issues, 386 market reaction to stock issues, 387–389 rights issues, 389–390 Purchase method of merger accounting, 821–822 Purchasing power parity, 698, 698n, 700–703, 705n Pure plays, 226 Puri, M., 374n Put-call parity, 520n, 520–521 Put options in reducing risk, 664 relationship between

Money Free and Unfree

by George A. Selgin  · 14 Jun 2017  · 454pp  · 134,482 words

preservation of international monetary equilibrium. In the context of an international specie standard—let us say gold—the condition for such an equilibrium, that of “purchasing power parity,” implies that a given sum of gold bullion should purchase approximately the same bundle of tradable goods in all gold-standard countries: “approximately” because prices

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the country where prices are higher, with gold flows serving to finance the increased trade deficit. This Humean price-specie-flow mechanism will eventually restore purchasing power parity by promoting, on the one hand, monetary contraction in the country where goods are more expensive and, on the other, monetary expansion where goods have

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, provoking a general strike, and giving rise to what were euphemistically termed balance-of-payments “difficulties.” The obvious alternatives for bringing the pound back into purchasing-power parity with the (undiminished) U.S. dollar were further deflation (and corresponding depression) or devaluation. British authorities, however, opted for “none of the above.” Drawing inspiration

EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts

by Ashoka Mody  · 7 May 2018

, available from: http://​www.ggdc.net/​maddison/​oriindex.htm, series “GDP.” The values for 2009 and 2010 are from the Conference Board (GDP adjusted for purchasing power parity, series “GK GDP”), available from https://​www.conference-​board.org/​data/​economydatabase/​index.cfm?id=27762. three leaps in the dark 25 for economic development

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GDP per capita as percent of US GDP per capita, three-​year moving averages) Note: This chart plots the weighted average per capita GDP (in purchasing power parity terms) of euro-​ area countries as a ratio of US per capita GDP. Nine of the first twelve members represent the euro area in this

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had lost its vitality decades earlier. the ecb hesitates, the italian fault line deepens 339 Per capita incomes (In thousands of US dollars, corrected for purchasing power parity) Unemployment rates (Percent) 13 50 Italy 12 48 Germany 11 46 France 10 44 9 42 France 40 38 8 7 6 36 Italy 34

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02 Italy (years on bottom x-axis) Figure 8.2. Italy seen in the mirror of Japan’s lost decade. (Per capita GDP, corrected for purchasing power parity, Japan 1991 = 100, Italy 2008 = 100) Source: The Conference Board “Total Economy Database (Adjusted Version),” http://​www.conference-​ board.org/​data/​economydatabase/​. deflationary mentality to

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