Although the literature on purchasing power parity (PPP) is rich in controversy, the relative contribution of prices and nominal exchange rates to real exchange rate movements which restore PPP disequilibria has rarely been put under any close scrutiny. Using monthly data from 1973:01 to 2009:12...

This paper analyses the properties of multivariate tests of purchasing power parity (PPP) that fail to take heterogeneity in the speed of mean reversion across real exchange rates into account. We compare the performance of homogeneous and heterogeneous unit root testing methodologies. The...

We show that the behaviour of the real exchange rates of the UK, Germany, France and Japan has been characterised by structural breaks which changed the adjustment mechanism. In the context of a Time-Varying Smooth Transition AutoRegressive of the kind introduced by Lundbergh et al (2003), we...

The longtime perplexing purchasing power parity (PPP) puzzle has been recently resolved empirically by using the pure price inflation rates extracted and estimated by a pioneering financial-asset pricing approach. Applying the same extracted inflation rates, we estimate a vector error-correction...

Asset prices undergo long swings that revolve around benchmark levels. In currency markets, fluctuations involve real exchange rates that are highly persistent and that move in near-parallel fashion with nominal rates. The inability to explain these two regularities with one model has been...

The paper analyzes the consumption-real exchange rate anomaly in a multi-country model with complete markets under various preference specifications: (i) standard time-additive preferences; (ii) recursive preferences of Epstein and Zin; and (iii) habit formation preferences of Campbell and...

I develop a model that relates real exchange rate movements to government fiscal conditions. The intertemporal government budget condition implies the value of government debt equals the present value of primary surpluses. To enforce this equilibrium condition in the presence of nominal...

We estimate variance decompositions of the real exchange rates for 19 individual currencies based on a present-value relation. We document substantial heterogeneity across forecasting horizons and currencies regarding the determinants of exchange rates. At short horizons, the dominant force is...

This study proposes to investigate the link between Real Exchange Rate and Economic Growth in ten Asia - Pacific countries and aims to study how Real Exchange Rate (RER) and Economic Growth (EG) were related to each other. This study decomposed the linear relationship between RER and Economic...

The main purpose of this study is to examine the causal relationship between Real Exchange Rate and Economic Growth Variables in the Asia – Pacific region. Granger Causality Test was employed, to examine the causal relationship between the dependent and independent variables, with the sample...