Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/72259 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Reihe Ökonomie / Economics Series No. 159
Publisher: 
Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna
Abstract: 
This paper reviews panel unit root and cointegration tests in the context of PPP. It highlights various drawbacks of existing methods. First, unit root tests suffer from severe size distortions in the presence of negative moving average errors. Second, the common demeaning procedure to correct for the bias resulting from homogeneous cross-sectional dependence is not effective; more worryingly, it introduces cross-correlation when it is not already present. Third, standard corrections for the case of heterogeneous cross-sectional dependence do not generally produce consistent estimators. Fourth, if there is between-group correlation in the innovations, the SURE estimator is affected by similar problems to FGLS methods, and does not necessarily outperform OLS. Finally, cointegration between different groups in the panel could also be a source of size distortions. We offer some empirical guidelines to deal with these problems, but conclude that panel methods are unlikely to solve the PPP puzzle.
Subjects: 
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
panel unit root and cointegration tests
cross-sectional dependence
JEL: 
C23
F31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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