Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to revisit the evidence for purchasing power parity (PPP) using long, low-frequency data (over 100 years) for 23 organization for economic co-operation and development (OECD) countries against each of four different base currencies – the Deutsch mark,...

Purpose: To investigate the complex relationship between inflation, inflation uncertainty and equity returns. Design/methodology/approach: This paper uses a bivariate VARMA, GARCH-in-mean, asymmetric BEKK model to investigate the relationship between inflation, inflation uncertainty and equity...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of inflation uncertainty on real economic activity using data from four industrialised countries. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses the econometric framework developed by Elder in the context of a multivariate framework...

Purpose – This paper set out to use an autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (ARCH)-type model to capture the time-varying conditional variance of Alberta electricity prices. This is of major importance in forecasting, since ARCH-type models allow the conditional variance to depend on...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate productivity growth and technical progress bias in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – Following the work of Kohli in 1978 and Diewert and Wales in 1992, the paper estimates output supply and input demand functions in the context of a...

Purpose – To test the Feldstein-Horioka hypothesis that the investment-to-output ratio moves one-for-one with the saving-to-output ratio, suggesting international capital mobility. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses the econometric framework developed by Fisher and Seater,...