Recent advances in nonlinear cointegration analysis find evidence for a nonlinear long-run relation between the U.S. interest rate and inflation. Employing the Breitung's (2001) rank tests for nonlinear cointegration, we find herein little evidence for cointegration in the U.S. data. We also...

We compare the behavior of short term interest rates in hard-peg and floating-exchange-rate countries. We use a framework which allows both domestic and foreign factors to play a role in the determination of interest rates and assess them empirically for eight Latin American countries between...

We compare the behavior of short term interest rates in hard-peg and floating-exchange-rate countries. We use a framework which allows both domestic and foreign factors to play a role in the determination of interest rates and assess them empirically for eight Latin American countries between...

The aim of this paper is to gauge quantitatively the macroeconomic impact of EMU membership. Building on the Global VAR framework designed by Pesaran et al. (2004), we want to shed light on the following important questions: What if the euro had never been launched? How would national outputs...

This paper compares the power of alternative tests for the level moment conditions in GMM estimation of a linear dynamic panel data model. The test statistic calculated conventionally can take on a negative value in finite samples even though it cannot be asymptotically. A straightforward...

This study investigates the income convergence hypothesis between Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Costa Rica using a unit root test developed by Kapetanios, Shin and Snell (2003) (KSS) which tests the joint null hypothesis of linearity and a unit root against a nonlinear stationary process. In a...

This article investigates the evolution of the Asian stock market integration with the regional one. First, we estimate the time-varying degree of Asian market integration using conditional version of the International Capital Asset Pricing Model (ICAPM) with DCC-GARCH para-meters. Secondly, we...

This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of the t-ratio associated to an irrelevant variable in a three-variable cointegration analysis. It is proved that the t-ratio converges to a non-standard distribution suitable for statistical inference. Although the test-statistic is not pivotal...

We extend Ross and Cooper (1998) and find an adequate liquidate provision as a function of liquidity cost in CRRA (Constant Relative Risk Aversion) environment. Our study shows that a RPC (run preventing contract) in a MMMF (money market mutual fund) requires a higher amount of liquidity...

In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, construction of a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables such as the level of...