This paper examines if the law of one price holds under different exchange rate regimes and if a simultaneous relationship exists among prices of different countries. The findings show that prices in industrial countries are related, as suggested by the monetary approach. Confirming the law of...

Although theoretical discussion of Factor Price Equalization (FPE) theorem has been quite prolific in the international economics literature, empirical tests of the FPE theorem have been very limited and inadequately performed. In this paper, we use Johansen's multivariate cointegration testing...

This letter re-examines the role of commercial loans versus demand deposits in the monetary transmission mechanism using short-run and long-run sequential causality testing procedures designed by Toda and Phillips. Empirical results support the credit view that bank loans are as good a predictor...

Utlizing Johansen's (1988) multivariate cointegration testing procedure, we find a cointegrating vector between the outputs of five major industrialized nations for the fixed exchange rate period. However, this relationship breaks down for the flexible exchange rate era. We argue that the...

We study the effects of expected and unexpected inflation on real stock returns for France, Germany, Italy and the UK. We find evidence that unexpected inflation affects stock returns in France, Italy and the UK, but that expected inflation does not. Unexpected interest rates also affect real...