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Title: | Cointegration tests of PPP: Do they also exhibit erratic behaviour? |
Authors: | Caporale, GM Hanck, C |
Keywords: | Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), Real Exchange Rate, Cointegration,;Stationarity, Parameter Instability |
Issue Date: | 2006 |
Publisher: | Brunel University |
Citation: | Economics and Finance Discussion Paper, Brunel University, 06-18 |
Abstract: | We analyse whether tests of PPP exhibit erratic behaviour (as previously reported by Caporale et al., 2003) even when (possibly unwarranted) homogeneity and proportionality restrictions are not imposed, and trivariate cointegration (stage-three) tests between the nominal exchange rate, domestic and foreign price levels are carried out (instead of stationarity tests on the real exchange rate, as in stage-two tests). We examine the US dollar real exchange rate vis-à-vis 21 other currencies over a period of more than a century, and find that stage-three tests produce similar results to those for stage-two tests, namely the former also behave erratically. This confirms that neither of these traditional approaches to testing for PPP can solve the issue of PPP. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/1008 |
Appears in Collections: | Economics and Finance Dept of Economics and Finance Research Papers |
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