Testing the long-run relationship between health expenditures and GDP in the presence of structural change: the case of Spain

Vicente Esteve and Jose Martinez-Zahonero

Applied Economics Letters, 2007, vol. 14, issue 4, 271-276

Abstract: This article examines the long-run relationship between per capita US$ PPP health expenditures (HE) and per capita US$ PPP national income (GDP), using Spanish data over the period 1960 to 2001. We extend previous analyses by addressing the question of whether this relationship is stable over time, allowing for structural changes at an unknown date. Our empirical results are consistent with the existence of a long-run relationship between both variables, with two structural changes in 1971 and 1991. On the other hand, health would have been characterized as a luxury commodity, even though increasingly less over time.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850500425196

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