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Are shocks to real output permanent or transitory? Evidence from a panel of Pacific Island countries

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posted on 2009-11-01, 00:00 authored by V Mishra, Susan SharmaSusan Sharma, R Smyth
Panel unit root and stationarity tests without structural breaks suggest that for eight Pacific island economies real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita contains a unit root. The panel stationarity test that accommodates structural change in the trend function, however, finds evidence in favour of regimewise trend stationarity. This result points to the importance of taking structural breaks into account. The finding implies that, for the period considered, the permanent secular component of output is dominated by transitory fluctuations accompanied by infrequent changes in the trend function. The only exceptions are Fiji and Kiribati, for which individual stationarity tests with multiple structural breaks suggest that real GDP per capita contains a unit root.

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Journal

Pacific economic bulletin

Volume

24

Issue

1

Pagination

65 - 82

Publisher

Asia Pacific Press

Location

Canberra, A. C. T.

ISSN

0817-8038

eISSN

1834-9455

Language

eng

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C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2009, The Australian National University

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