This paper re-examines the issue of long-run monetary neutrality by using fractional integration and allowing for a possible structural break in six countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, Australia and Argentina. We use an extension of Fisher and Seater’s (1993)...

This paper analyzes the unemployment dynamics of 18 Latin American countries for the last four decades. We use a time series approach to test the mean reversion of unemployment rates and its approximation to a Natural Rate of Unemployment (NRU). The tests include the possibility of one and two...