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Do per capita health care expenditures converge among OECD countries? Evidence from unit root tests with level and trend-shifts
- Issue Date
- 2015
- Publisher
- ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
- Keywords
- per capita health care expenditures; OECD; unit roots; trend-shifts
- Citation
- APPLIED ECONOMICS, v.47, no.52, pp.5600 - 5613
- Indexed
- SSCI
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- Journal Title
- APPLIED ECONOMICS
- Volume
- 47
- Number
- 52
- Start Page
- 5600
- End Page
- 5613
- ISSN
- 0003-6846
- Abstract
- This study examines the stochastic conditional convergence of per capita health care expenditures (PCHCE) among 19 OECD countries over the period 1972-2008. Specifically, newly developed LM and RALS-LM unit root tests with allowance for two endogenously determined structural breaks are employed. The results indicate support for PCHCE convergence among most OECD countries. The results are stronger in more general tests that control for two breaks and nonnormal errors. Panel unit root tests provide additional support for the stochastic convergence of PCHCE.
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