The stationarity of consumption–income ratios: Evidence from bootstrapping confidence intervals

Firouz Fallahi

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 115, issue 1, 137-140

Abstract: We study the stationarity of consumption–income ratio (APC) in OECD countries. To that end, we use three different bootstrapping techniques to construct the 90% confidence intervals. The results show that the APC is non-stationary in most of the countries.

Keywords: Consumption-income; Unit root; Confidence interval; Bootstrapping (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 E21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.12.023

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