Do COVID-19 cases follow a similar transition path? Evidence from Indian states

Vaseem Akram; Badri Narayan Rath; Pradipta Kumar Sahoo

doi:10.1016/j.mex.2020.101196

Do COVID-19 cases follow a similar transition path? Evidence from Indian states

MethodsX. 2021:8:101196. doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2020.101196. Epub 2020 Dec 23.

Authors

Vaseem Akram¹, Badri Narayan Rath², Pradipta Kumar Sahoo²

Affiliations

¹ Economics and Business Environment Area, Indian Institute of Management Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir 180016, India.
² Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. Kandi, Sangareddy, Telangana 502285, India.

Abstract

This paper assesses the convergence of COVID-19 cases by obtaining transition paths of Indian states covering the period from August 01 to October 31, 2020. The results based on Phillips-Sul test show evidence of different transition paths. These findings are useful from the policy perspective, particularly to see whether existing efforts made for stopping the spread of COVID-19 by states/central governments are effective.•Convergence of COVID-19 cases across Indian states is investigated.•The Phillips and Sul test is applied.•Findings are in favour of different transition paths.

Keywords: COVID-19; Club convergence; Indian states.