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Understanding regional growth dynamics in Japan: Panel co-integration approach utilizing the PANIC method

Masahiko Shibamoto, Yoshiro Tsutsui () and Chisako Yamane

Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2016, vol. 40, issue C, 17-30

Abstract: This study proposes a panel co-integration approach using the PANIC method for understanding the regional growth dynamics using non-stationary panel data, and applies it to Japanese prefectures. This approach enables us to analyze both long-run equilibrium growth path and short-run dynamics across the regions. Specifically, we find that there is one common source of growth to which prefectures attach different weights, that the per capita real income of follower-prefectures will catch up to that of leader-prefectures, and that temporal fluctuations of the catch-up process elicited by Barro type regression qualitatively corresponds to short-run dynamics across prefectures by the PANIC method.

Keywords: β-convergence; Common trends; Panel unit root test; PANIC method; Japan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C23 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jjie.2016.03.004

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