1. Breaking the panels: An application to the GDP per capita.
- Author
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Lluís Carrion-I-Silvestre, Josep, del Barrio-Castro, Tomás, and López-Bazo, Enrique
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GROSS domestic product ,PER capita ,ECONOMIC indicators ,GROSS national product ,ECONOMIC statistics - Abstract
This paper proposes a test statistic for the null hypothesis of panel stationarity that allows for the presence of multiple structural breaks. Two different specifications are considered depending on the structural breaks affecting the individual effects and/or the time trend. The model is flexible enough to allow the number of breaks and their position to differ across individuals. The test is shown to have a standard normal limit distribution with a good finite sample performance. It is applied to typical panel data of real per capita GDP in a set of OECD countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2005
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