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Are we getting closer to purchasing power parity in Central and Eastern European economies?

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  • Darja Boršič
  • Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah
  • Jani Bekő

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In this article we examine the theory of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) on a sample of Central and Eastern European economies. This article makes two main advances with respect to previous PPP studies. First, it employs a monthly database on real exchange rates for a panel of 12 Central and Eastern European economies by testing the theory separately with respect to the US dollar and to the euro for the period January 1994 to December 2008. Second, we utilize, among other panel unit root tests, the panel Seemingly Unrelated Regressions Augmented Dickey--Fuller (SURADF) test proposed by Breuer et al. (2002), which allows us to identify how many and which members of the panel contain a unit root. As our study found support for the validity of PPP in some reforming European economies, special attention should be devoted to individual country-specific factors that cause PPP deviations.

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  • Darja Boršič & Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah & Jani Bekő, 2012. "Are we getting closer to purchasing power parity in Central and Eastern European economies?," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(1), pages 87-91, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:19:y:2012:i:1:p:87-91
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2011.568383
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    1. Gheorghe Savoiu & Marian Siminica, 2016. "Disparities, Discrepancies and Specific Concentration – Diversification Trends in the Group of Central and East European Ex-Socialist Countries," The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal, Academy of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania, vol. 18(43), pages 503-503, August.
    2. Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah & Siew-Voon Soon & Stilianos Fountas & Nurul Sima Mohamad Shariff, 2016. "Persistence of Real Exchange Rates in the Central and Eastern European Countries," Journal of Business Economics and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(3), pages 381-396, June.
    3. Aviral Tiwari & Muhammad Shahbaz, 2014. "Revisiting Purchasing Power Parity for India using threshold cointegration and nonlinear unit root test," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 47(2), pages 117-133, May.

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