This article empirically tests for convergence in Consumer Price Indices (CPIs) across 17 major cities in the United States over the period 1918 to 2008. Although the conventional panel unit root tests generally fail to reject the null hypothesis of nonstationarity, the panel LM tests of Im et...

By applying the pooled mean group estimator to a large panel up to 40 countries over the 1960–2009 period, this study finds that financial structure is significantly cointegrated to both economic growth and its volatility. In particular, the relationship is positive in nature, suggesting that...

type="main" xml:id="twec12126-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This paper assesses the impacts of financial sector volatility and banking market structure on industrial exports. By utilising the specification of Rajan and Zingales (American Economic Review 1998; <b>88</b>, 559) on the cross-country, cross-industry data...</p>

This paper empirically examines whether there exists stochastic convergence of income inequality among 48 contiguous states within the US over the 1916–2005 period. For that purpose, we employ the recently developed panel stationarity test of Carrion-i-Silvestre, Del Barrio-Castro and...

In this paper, we provide evidence that banking industry volatility may exert a negative impact on growth in a more economically integrated world. By applying the augmented difference-in-difference framework of Rajan and Zingales (1998) to the cross-country cross-industry data developed by...

This paper assesses the long-run effect of growth volatility on income inequality using a comprehensive panel of annual U.S. state-level data during the 1945 to 2004 period. Using the pooled mean group (PMG) estimator, we find evidence supporting the hypothesis that larger growth volatility...

This article explores the treatment effects of inflation targeting (IT) on unemployment rates across a large panel of 74 countries over the 1980--2010 period. By addressing the 'self-selection' problem of policy adoption via a variety of propensity score matching algorithms, we first find that,...

This paper empirically tests for convergence in consumer price indices across 17 major cities in US over the 1918–2008 period. By using the novel OLS estimator introduced by Bao, Y., Dhongde, S., 2009. Testing convergence in income distribution. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 71,...