Unbiased estimation of the half-life to PPP convergence in panel data

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 921-938

  Choi, Chi Young ^a   Mark, Nelson C ^b,c   Sul, Donggyu ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bias; Half life; PPP; Time aggregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745954934     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mcb.2006.0052     Document Type: Review

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