Panel unit root tests show that intranational purchasing power parity cannot be rejected across major Australian cities from 1972:3 to 1999:1. The persistence of deviations in response to shocks is low, as measured by the estimated exact half-life of between five and ten quarters. This is much...

This paper examines the international convergence of inflation rates during the flexible rate period of eighteen OECD countries. Using individual country data, we find evidence of nonstationarity in most cases. The results are different in the case of the panel data model. Though, we can...