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In the last years, many studies have analyzed the stationarity of reel exchange rates which gives important knowledge about economic stability of countries. The panel unit root tests which include both pooled and individual unit root tests are used frequently to analyze the stationarity of real exchange rates. Generally, structural breaks issue have taken place in macroeconomic time series for some years. If unit root tests are used without taking account these structural breaks, stationarity hypothesis can be rejected mistakenly. In this study, panel unit root tests with and without structural breaks were used to analyze the validity of Purchasing Power Parity hypothesis in 25 OECD countries. According to the results, while in panel unit root tests with no break, PPP theory is valid for only 10 countries; it is valid for all countries in panel unit root tests with structural breaks. |
