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Bivariate relative city price convergence in the United States: 1918-1997

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  • Sonora, Robert J.

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As in international tests of purchasing power parity, panel unit root tests have been successful in rejecting a unit root process in U.S. city relative prices over the period 1918-1997. However, there is an empirical question of what the rejection of a 'panel unit root', particularly with respect to real exchange rates, means. This paper employs a variety of univariate unit root and cointegration tests which have recently come to the fore. These tests improve the power and reduce size distortion found in standard unit root and cointegration tests such as the Dickey-Fuller and Phillips-Perron tests. I find considerable evidence for rejecting a unit root process in the majority of U.S. city relative prices over the entire sample period and two subperiods. Less successful are stationarity tests conducted on regions of the U.S.

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Volume (Year): 17 (2008)
Issue (Month): 2 ()
Pages: 92-111

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  1. Boriss Siliverstovs & Sule Akkoyunlu, 2011. "Does the Law of One Price Hold in a High-Inflation Environment? A Tale of Two Cities in Turkey," EcoMod2011 3139, EcoMod.
  2. Bilgili, Faik, 2011. "City price convergence in Turkey with structural breaks," MPRA Paper 54295, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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