We provide a brief review of recent developments in research on price movements of real estate, especially bubbles, and highlight the gap between theoretical and statistical approaches to bubble detection. We also propose applying a top-down strategy to a bounds testing method (Pesaran et al. in...

The long-run purchasing power parity (PPP) concept is empirically studied using the parallel market exchange rates of 17 African countries and employing the panel cointegration method. This approach is particularly useful when analysing African countries, which do not have long time-series. This...