This paper estimates the responsiveness of sectoral subindex returns to changes in the domestic market portfolio, and compares predictions of nonsystematic risk using GARCH and EGARCH specifications of the error variance. Our results show that returns for the portfolios of Commercial Banks and...

This paper presents a general framework to address several issues that have arisen in recent work that investigates purchasing power parity (PPP) and other inter-regional relative price movements: (1) How can we model real exchange rate movements in a consistent manner, so that our model for the...