Ahmad Zubaidi, Baharumshah and Evan, Lau and Mudziviri t., Nziramasanga (2010) Purchasing power parity in African countries: Evidence from panel suradf test. South African Journal of Economics, 78 (1). ISSN 1813-6982
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Abstract
This study reexamines the validity of long-run purchasing power parity (PPP) hypothesis using a battery of panel unit root tests for 11 developing countries in Africa over the period 1980-2007. Based on the conventional panel unit root tests, we found evidence that the monthly real exchange rates in these countries were mean reverting. By contrast, the series-specific unit root test proposed by Breuer "et al." (SURADF) reveals that only six of the 11 RERs series were stationary using the US dollar as reference currency. Additionally, our results reveal that there is stronger evidence of the parity condition with the Rand-based rates than in the other currency-based rates like the US dollar or Euro. We conclude that PPP holds in some, but not all, of the African countries according to the SURADF tests.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | real exchange rates, panel unit root test, purchasing power parity, research, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, unimas, university, universiti, Borneo, Malaysia, Sarawak, Kuching, Samarahan, ipta, education |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| Divisions: | Academic Faculties, Institutes and Centres > Faculty of Economics and Business Faculties, Institutes, Centres > Faculty of Economics and Business |
| Depositing User: | Karen Kornalius |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Sep 2017 06:14 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jun 2023 03:20 |
| URI: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17827 |
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