Are we getting closer to purchasing power parity in Central and Eastern European economies?

Darja Boršič, Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah () and Jani Bekő

Applied Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 19, issue 1, 87-91

Abstract: In this article we examine the theory of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) on a sample of Central and Eastern European economies. This article makes two main advances with respect to previous PPP studies. First, it employs a monthly database on real exchange rates for a panel of 12 Central and Eastern European economies by testing the theory separately with respect to the US dollar and to the euro for the period January 1994 to December 2008. Second, we utilize, among other panel unit root tests, the panel Seemingly Unrelated Regressions Augmented Dickey--Fuller (SURADF) test proposed by Breuer et al. (2002), which allows us to identify how many and which members of the panel contain a unit root. As our study found support for the validity of PPP in some reforming European economies, special attention should be devoted to individual country-specific factors that cause PPP deviations.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2011.568383

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