scholarly journals GDP Purchasing Power Parity per Capita and Its Determinants: A Panel Data Analysis for BRICS

2018 ◽  
Vol 08 (03) ◽  
pp. 575-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Venkata Seshaiah ◽  
Trilochan Tripathy
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Purchasing Power Parity ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Purchasing Power ◽  
Power Parity ◽  
Per Capita

scholarly journals Purchasing Power Parity in Commonwealth of Independent States

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gülçin Güreşçi Pehlivan ◽  
Esra Ballı ◽  
Muammer Tekeoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Purchasing Power Parity ◽  
Unit Root ◽  
Unit Root Test ◽  
Purchasing Power ◽  
Power Parity ◽  
Panel Unit Root ◽  
Independent States

The Purchasing Power Parity suggests that differences in relative prices in two countries move together with nominal exchange rates in the long run. This study examines the validity of PPP as transition economies for Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Purchasing Power Parity holds only when the real exchange rate is stationary in the equation. To test the stationary, we used both time series and panel data analysis. Testing unit root both with time series and panel data in this study, provides us double check of the results. We also test the cross sectional dependence to choose the appropriate panel unit root test. Our test statistics indicate that there is cross section dependence between countries. Hence, one needs to take into consideration the cross section dependence while undertaking unit root tests. Otherwise, the results would be biased. ADF and KPPS indicate that PPP cannot be accepted for the countries except for Russia. According to the panel unit root test results indicate that PPP does not hold for Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan except for Russia.

scholarly journals The Big Mac Index And Real-Income Disparity

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vidya Atal
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Purchasing Power Parity ◽  
Real Income ◽  
Purchasing Power ◽  
Income Disparity ◽  
Power Parity ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Government ◽  
Role Of The Government

The Big Mac Index was introduced to (semi-humorously) test the theory of purchasing power parity and measure the disparity in currency values. Instead, in this paper, we consider this index to find out the per capita real-income disparity across 54 countries. We find that the per capita real-income can be very low in some countries even when Big Mac burgers are very cheap, like in India. Among these countries, Hong Kongs per capita Big Mac affordability is the highest with 47 burgers daily whereas Pakistans people could afford just one a day. Additionally, we find that Russia and Chinas Big Mac affordability has been significantly increasing over the last decade, Brazils has remained more or less constant, however USAs Big Mac affordability has been falling, indicating that per capita real-income of Americans has been decreasing over the last decade. Finally, we find that increased role of the government might be negatively correlated to per capita real-income. Czech Republic has been experiencing increased Big Mac affordability as the country has been reducing the governments role; whereas Argentina has been experiencing reduced Big Mac affordability as the country has been moving left and increasing the governments power.

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