This article applies the Band-Threshold Autoregression (Band-TAR) model to investigate whether the law of one price (LOOP) holds in Taiwanese wholesale hog markets during the period from May 1987 through December 2003. We find evidence of a nonlinear mean reversion in deviations from the LOOP...

This study empirically re-investigated whether carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions series were stationary in 21 OECD countries during the 1960-2000 period. A suite of test statistics were employed, proposed by Sen (2003), with a model that simultaneously allows for a break within the context of...

This paper applies a recent advance in panel analysis to estimate the panel cointegration and panel vector error correction models for a set of 22 OECD countries using annual data covering the period 1960-2001. We investigate the relationship between energy consumption and income using an...

The purpose of this paper is to re-investigate issues in purchasing power parity (PPP) convergence using a threshold vector error-correction model with deutschmark-based exchange rates. We find that the half-life of real exchange rates is less than two and a half years, that PPP convergence is...

The purpose of this article is to apply a symmetric band–threshold autoregressive model to investigate several interesting issues regarding purchasing power parity (PPP). We find that the nonlinear adjustment toward PPP is sensitive to price indices and is supported if a traded-goods real...

The purpose of this paper is to apply a symmetric band threshold autoregressive model to investigate the non-linear adjustment of the real pound-dollar rate over a period from 1885 to 2003. After controlling for the Harrod-Balassa-Samuelson effects, we find evidence to support a non-linear mean...

The effect of raising cigarette taxes to reduce smoking has been the subject of several studies, which often treat the price of cigarettes as an exogenous factor given to smokers who respond to it by adjusting their smoking behavior. However, cigarette prices vary with brand and quality, and...

This paper examines banks’ diversification–performance nexus from the perspective of demand, the magnitude of households’ financial participation, with bank data from 22 European countries over the period from 2002 to 2009. We argue that the magnitude of households’ financial...