Is the health care price inflation in US urban areas stationary? Evidence from panel unit root tests

Purpose - This study aims to investigate, for the first time in the literature, the stochastic properties of the US aggregate health-care price inflation rate series, using the data on health-care inflation rates for a panel of 17 major US urban areas for the period 1966-2006. Design/methodology/app...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Vasudeva Murthy, Albert Okunade
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emerald Publishing 2018-06-01
Series:Journal of Economics Finance and Administrative Science
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Online Access:https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/JEFAS-02-2017-0043