Maritime Economic Logistics

TABLE 3

FROM:

An Analysis of Bunker Adjustment Factors and Freight Rates in the Europe/Far East Market (2000–2004)

Pierre Cariou and Francois-Charles Wolff

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Table 3. Tests of stationarity for WEST, EAST, AVERAGE and HARPEX

Variables   ADF 1 DF-GLS 2 Phillips–Perron 3
WESTLevel-0.670-0.583-0.795
D.WESTFirst difference-8.048*** -5.382*** -8.062***
EASTLevel-2.319-2.185* -2.307
D.EASTFirst difference-8.736*** -5.798*** -8.761***
AVERAGELevel-0.981-0.815-1.029
D.AVERAGEFirst difference-8.390*** -5.676*** -8.350***
HARPEXLevel0.946-0.510-0.109
D.HARPEXFirst difference-2.984** -2.438** -3.095**

 Significance levels are respectively 1% (***), 5% (**) and 10% (*). The different models comprise an intercept and no trend. The sample comprises 60 observations.

1 Critical values for the ADF test are respectively -3.57, -2.92 and -2.60 for the 1%, 5% and 10% levels.

2 Critical values for the DF-GLS test are respectively -2.61, -2.23 and -1.92 for the 1%, 5% and 10% levels.

3 Critical values for the Phillips–Perron test are respectively -3.57, -2.92 and -2.60 for the 1%, 5% and 10% levels.

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