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consider whether the law of one price and purchasing power parity held in Europe during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth … theories can be traced back over 700 years in Europe. …
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. If the price deviation is stationary, it is said that there is price convergence and market integration. The results …
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This paper tests the validity of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) doctrine for Ghana using the conventional relative PPP equation. We conducted a univariate Augmented Dickey-Fuller unit root test on the model variables. Exchange rate and CPI data for Ghana and the USA were collected on annual basis...
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The empirical validation of the purchasing power parity (PPP) theory is generally based on real exchange rates built using consumer price indexes (CPI). The empirical evidence does not generally support the theory and this fact goes under the name of purchasing power parity puzzle. In this paper...
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A unique panel of retail prices spanning 123 cities in 79 countries from 1990 to 2005 is used to uncover the novel properties of long-run international price dispersion. At the PPP level, almost all of price dispersion is attributed to unskilled wage dispersion. At the level of individual goods...
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A unique panel of retail prices spanning 123 cities in 79 countries from 1990 to 2005 is used to uncover the novel properties of long-run international price dispersion. At the PPP level, almost all of price dispersion is attributed to unskilled wage dispersion. At the level of individual goods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010906413
Mexico), Europe (Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal), Asia (Japan and South Korea), and Oceania (Australia and New Zealand …) with corresponding data from emerging market economies in South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia) and Asia …-country relative price dispersion in emerging market economies. These effects are found to be quite persistent since relative price …
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) to study the impact of the introduction of the euro on goods market integration. Employing both aggregated and …
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experiment based on a unique micro-data set from a market with minimum imperfections. The empirical findings validate our …
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