Rogoff suggested in 1996 that the dollar-yen real exchange rate represented a 'canonical' case of a trend in the equilibrium real exchange rate. The implied speed of adjustment of the dollar-yen real exchange rate is found to be substantially faster, with half-life shocks of less than 2 years,...

The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of the income and price elasticities of the demand for imports in Argentina. Given the non-stationary nature of the data and to avoid problems of spurious regression we applied co-integration techniques to quarterly data over the period 1970:1...

This paper analyses the asymmetries in the response of petrol prices to oil price shocks. We show that previous work, based on the determination of asymmetric responses, can be improved upon by allowing for asymmetries in short term dynamics. The paper shows that a significant determinant of the...