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Do Malaysian house prices follow a random walk? Evidence from univariate and panel LM unit root tests with one and two structural breaks

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  • Hooi Hooi Lean
  • Russell Smyth

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In this article we apply univariate and panel Lagrange Multiplier (LM) unit root tests with one and twostructural breaks proposed by Lee and Strazicich (2003, 2004) and Im et al . (2005) to examine housing prices for five different housing price indices (all housing, detached housing, semi-detached housing, terrace housing and high-rise housing) in 14 states of Malaysia to test whether housing prices exhibit a random walk. Our main finding from the univariate LM unit root tests is that for the vast majority of states housing prices follow a stationary process about a segmented trend. The results of the panel LM unit root tests provide overwhelming evidence that house prices are segmented trend reverting.

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  • Hooi Hooi Lean & Russell Smyth, 2013. "Do Malaysian house prices follow a random walk? Evidence from univariate and panel LM unit root tests with one and two structural breaks," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(18), pages 2611-2627, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:45:y:2013:i:18:p:2611-2627
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2012.674207
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