New multivariate panel cointegration methods are used to analyze nominal exchange rates and prices in four major economies in Europe: France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom for the post-Bretton Woods period. We test for purchasing power parity (PPP) between these four countries and find...

This paper presents a maximum likelihood panel test of the cointegrating rank in heterogeneous panel models based on the mean of the individual rank trace statistics. The existence of the first two moments of the asymptotic distribution of the individual trace statistic is established. Based on...

The present work applies saddlepoint approximation to calculate the left-hand tail of the distribution of the unit root t test and an asymptotic equivalent test under the null hypothesis of a unit root. (This is the tail of interest when testing against a stationary alternative.) The saddlepoint...

and hence makes the test valid for any (T, N) combination. The asymptotic distributions of the tests are derived under the null and are shown to be normally distributed. Their moments for T fixed are derived analytically using Ghazal's (1994, Statistics and Probability letters 20, 313--319) ¹...

This paper gives numerical approximations of the finite sample distribution of the KPSS test statistic. We use two types of approximations depending on whether we estimate the long-run variance or not. In the known variance case we apply a very simple Laplace inversion formula, while in the...