Productivity bias hypothesis: evidence from South Asia

Sajid Anwar; Syed Zahid Ali

doi:10.1080/13504851.2015.1034832

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Productivity bias hypothesis: evidence from South Asia

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Productivity bias hypothesis: evidence from South Asia

Sajid Anwar and Syed Zahid Ali

Applied Economics Letters, Vol.22(17), pp.1389-1394

2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2015.1034832

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Abstract

purchasing power parity

exchange rate determination

productivity bias hypothesis

South Asia

Most existing studies have attempted to test the productivity bias hypothesis by making use of the cross-section data. This article utilizes countrylevel time series data from PennWorld Tables to examine the productivity bias hypothesis for five South Asian economies (namely, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). We make use of Johansen's cointegration approach and vector error correction modelling. The empirical analysis presented in this article shows that purchasing power parity theory holds for all countries considered. However, the productivity bias hypothesis appears to hold only in the case of Bangladesh and Nepal.

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Title: Productivity bias hypothesis: evidence from South Asia
Authors: Sajid Anwar (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
Syed Zahid Ali (Author) - Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
Publication details: Applied Economics Letters, Vol.22(17), pp.1389-1394
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2015
DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2015.1034832
ISSN: 1350-4851
Copyright note: Copyright © 2015 The Author. This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Applied Economics Letters 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13504851.2015.1034832
Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; USC Business School - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449120202621
Output Type: Journal article

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