Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/116092 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
43rd Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "Peripheries, Centres, and Spatial Development in the New Europe", 27th - 30th August 2003, Jyväskylä, Finland
Publisher: 
European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Louvain-la-Neuve
Abstract: 
The power purchasing parity (PPP) hypothesis and the law of one price (LOP) predict (long-run) price equalization across the space. In the absence of market frictions and transport costs, arbitrage should guarantee the same price, in a common currency, for a given commodity in different locations. Contradictory evidence has been reported at the international level, though generally concluding large and persistent price deviations. In this paper we show that long-run price convergence cannot be rejected in a sample of Spanish cities over a long period of time, using newly developed non-stationary panel data techniques. Robust estimates show an important dispersion of half lives in the Spanish cities. The paper also includes the analysis of the causes behind price deviations across the sample of cities.
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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