Mean-reverting behavior of current account in Asian countries

This paper adopted the series specific panel unit root test of Breuer et al. [Oxford Bullet in of Economics and Statistics 64 (2002, SURADF) 527–546] to test for the mean-reverting behavior of current account for the panel of twelve Asian countries. The results illustrate that the current account s...

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Main Authors: Lau, Evan, Ahmad Zubaidi, Baharumshah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2005
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Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/18572/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/18572/1/lau2005.pdf
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Summary:This paper adopted the series specific panel unit root test of Breuer et al. [Oxford Bullet in of Economics and Statistics 64 (2002, SURADF) 527–546] to test for the mean-reverting behavior of current account for the panel of twelve Asian countries. The results illustrate that the current account s in these countries are a mixture of I(0) and I(1) process and the commonly used panel root tests could lead to misleading inferences.