A revisit of the unemployment rate, interest rate, GDP growth and Inflation of Pakistan: Whether Structural break or unit root?

Sara Muhammadullah, Amena Urooj and Faridoon Khan ()
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Faridoon Khan: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad, Pakistan.

iRASD Journal of Economics, 2021, vol. 3, issue 2, 80-92

Abstract: The study investigates the query of structural break or unit root considering four macroeconomic indicators; unemployment rate, interest rate, GDP growth, and inflation rate of Pakistan. The previous studies create ambiguity regarding the stationarity and non-stationarity of these variables. We employ Zivot & Andrews (1992) unit root test and Step Indicator Saturation (SIS) method for multiple break detection in mean. GDP growth and inflation rate are stationary at level whereas unit root tests fail to reject the null hypothesis of the unemployment rate and interest rate at level. However, Zivot and Andrew unit root test with a single endogenous break indicates that the unemployment rate and interest rate are stationary at level with a single endogenous break. On the other hand, the SIS method reveals that the series are stationary with multiple structural breaks. It is inferred that it is inappropriate to take the first difference of the unemployment rate and interest rate to attain stationarity. The results of this study confirmed that there exist multiple breaks in the macroeconomic variables considered in the context of Pakistan.

Keywords: Step Indicator Saturation; Autometrics; Dummy Saturation model; Generalized Unidentified Model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L16 O13 Q15 Q43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.52131/joe.2021.0302.0027

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