Farmland prices, structural breaks and panel data |
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Authors: | Gutierrez Luciano; Westerlund Joakim; Erickson Kenneth |
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Institution: | 1 University of Sassari, Italy
2 Lund University, Sweden
3 US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Washington, DC, USA |
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Abstract: | Previous time series evidence has indicated that farmland pricesand cash rents are not cointegrated, a finding at odds withthe present value model of farmland prices. We argue that thisfailure to find cointegration may be due to low power of testsand to the presence of structural change representing a shiftingrisk premium on farmland investments. To accommodate this possibility,we use panel unit root and cointegration methods that are morepowerful than conventional time series methods and allow forbreaks in the cointegration relationship. Our results, basedon a large panel covering 31 US states between 1960 and 2000,suggest that the present value model of farmland prices cannotbe rejected. |
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Keywords: | farmland prices present value model non-stationary panel data analysis structural breaks |
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