Testing Nonlinear Convergence in Malaysia

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Muzafar Shah, Habibullah, Liew, Venus Khim-Sen, A.M., Dayang-Affizzah, Lim, Kian-Ping
• التنسيق: E-Article
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: MPRA 2008
• الموضوعات: HC Economic History and Conditions
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9750/1/Testing%20Nonlinear%20Convergence%20in%20Malaysia%28abs%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9750/; https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12110/

The purpose of the present paper is to examine income convergence in Malaysia by using the nonlinear unit root test due to Kapetanios et al. (KSS, 2003) and extended by Chong et al. (CHLL, 2008) to permit the test of long-run convergence and catching-up hypotheses. We apply the KSS-CHLL nonlinear...