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A Cross Country Test of the Permanent Income Hypothesis

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  • John J. Seater
  • Joseph P. DeJuan.

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The Permanent Income Hypothesis (PIH) predicts an income innovation has the same size effect on consumption as on permanent income, an implication we examine with a cross-country test proposed by Kormendi & LaHaye (1984). The data from industrial countries support PIH but data from developing countries do not. Also, however, data from countries with high quality national income accounts support PIH whereas data from countries with low quality accounts do not. The stage of economic development and data quality are highly correlated. The evidence suggests that the results may be driven primarily by data quality differences rather than systematically different behaviour between industrial and developing countries.
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  • John J. Seater & Joseph P. DeJuan., "undated". "A Cross Country Test of the Permanent Income Hypothesis," Working Paper Series 15, North Carolina State University, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ncs:wpaper:15
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    1. Saima Liaqat & Marguerite Wotto & Khalid Khan, 2020. "Estimation of Consumption Function for Developing Economies: China, Turkey, Vietnam and Bangladesh," Global Economics Review, Humanity Only, vol. 5(1), pages 1-11, March.
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    3. Tomas Havranek & Anna Sokolova, 2016. "Do Consumers Really Follow a Rule of Thumb? Three Thousand Estimates from 130 Studies Say "Probably Not"," Working Papers 2016/08, Czech National Bank, Research and Statistics Department.
    4. Salman Ahmed Shaikh & Mohd Adib Ismail & Abdul Ghafar Ismail & Shahida Shahimi & Muhammad Hakimi Mohd. Shafiai, 2018. "An Empirical Investigation Of Consumption Behaviour In Selected Oic Countries," Journal of Islamic Monetary Economics and Finance, Bank Indonesia, vol. 4(1), pages 101-116, August.

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