effective exchange rates and currency misalignments for the US and its 16 major trading partners. We apply cointegration and … panel cointegration techniques to derive fully countryspecific measures of misalignment and measures based on panel … cointegration tests by Westerlund (2007), as well as different estimators. While we find strong evidence for the Balassa …

Conditional Heteroscedasticity [GARCH(1,1)] model and the standard deviation approach. To this end, the panel cointegration …

Appl Econ 22:265-312, 2007). For panel cointegration analysis, we employed the four error-correction-based Westerlund (Oxf … Bull Econ Stat 69:709-748, 2007) panel cointegration tests. The Westerlund (Oxf Bull Econ Stat 69:709-748, 2007) tests are … estimated the cointegration test excluding Indonesia and Brunei. The findings support our initial results. Further, all the …

are formed by integrated process of order 1. We find that without a cointegration relation (spurious case) the …. Whereas, for the case when at least one cointegration relation exists, we have a T-consistent estimator for the intervention …

residuals of our pooled estimated modelare stationary. This indicates that on a pooled time series levelthere is cointegration …

-stationarity of hours worked. In addition, taking these results together, there is no indication of cointegration among the individual …

point of view, we apply recent panel cointegration techniques based on factor models that account for two additional …