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How Expensive is Norway? New International Relative Price Measures

By Kornelia Krajnyak, Volodymyr Tulin

June 1, 2010

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Kornelia Krajnyak, and Volodymyr Tulin. How Expensive is Norway? New International Relative Price Measures, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed October 4, 2024
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Summary

In this paper, we derive two new measures of international relative prices for Norway. Developments in these new measures follow rather closely movements in the CPI-based real effective exchange rate through the 1990s, but diverge after 2000—suggesting that the costs of living in Norway relative to its trading partners have risen in the recent years more than the real effective exchange rate would indicate.

Subject: Consumer price indexes, Consumption, Purchasing power parity, Real effective exchange rates, Real exchange rates

Keywords: Exchange rate, Norway, Price level, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    21

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2010/133

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2010133

  • ISBN:

    9781455201167

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941