Is Per Capita Real GDP Stationary in Latin American Countries?
) (Department of Cooperative Economics, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan.) Abstract In this note, we use the newly-developed and refined panel stationary test with structural breaks, as advanced by Carrion-i-Silvestre et al. (2005), to investigate the time-series properties of per capita real GDP for 20 Latin American countries during the 1960-2000 period. The empirical results from numerous earlier panel-based unit root tests which do not take structural breaks into account indicate that the per capita real GDP for all the countries we study here are non-stationary but when we employ Carrion-i-Silvestre et al.¡¦s (2005) panel stationary test with structural breaks, we find the null hypothesis of stationarity in per capita real GDP can not be rejected for any of the 20 countries. Download InfoTo download: If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first. Information about this may be contained in the File-Format links belo
