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The purpose of this study is to investigate the validity of the absolute version of the purchasing power parity (PPP) of a sample of four advanced and four emerging countries covering the period from 1993 to 2014. To examine the existence of PPP we apply the Augmented Dickey-Fuller, DF-GLS and...
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We assess the efficiency of monetary policy to guide inflation expectations in high and low regimes. Using quantile … regression we analyze the persistence of inflation expectations from the Consensus Economics Survey at different quantiles. We … Fed's unconventional monetary policy at the ZLB in thus ineffective in guiding inflation expectations. …
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This study examines nonlinear adjustment effects in the purchasing power parity (PPP) between South Africa and her main currency trading partners; namely, the US, the UK, the Euro area, China and Japan. We use monthly data of the nominal exchange rates and domestic price level data collected...
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This paper consists of two parts. In the first part the sensitivity of PPP testing to the nature of the unit root tests is demonstrated. Three unit root tests are employed for fourteen real bilateral exchange rates. The first two, the augmented Dickey-Fuller test and the Phillips-Perron test are...
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This paper proposes a method to asses the potential problems of sustainability of a country's sovereign debt. We claim that the relevant variables used for this analysis are typically subject to changes which are associated with changes in macroeconomics policies. We propose a procedure for...
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This study explores the stationarity of monthly Turkish real exchange rates based on both wholesale price indices and consumer price indices for the period 1990:1-2007:4. While the results from the conventional unit root tests fail to support stationarity of real exchange rates, the unit root...
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stationarity, and mixed evidence regarding inflation stationarity. …
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aggregate health-care price inflation rate series, using the data on health-care inflation rates for a panel of 17 major US … bias, and asymptotic normality, the US aggregate health-care price inflation rate series can be characterized as a non … the understanding of the data structure and, therefore, constructs of economic models of urban health-care price inflation …
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aggregate health-care price inflation rate series, using the data on health-care inflation rates for a panel of 17 major US …, finite sample bias, and asymptotic normality, the US aggregate health-care price inflation rate series can be characterized … care price inflation rates. The results confirming the presence of a unit root indicating a high degree of inflationary …
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developed here to test for unit roots in OECD panels of gross domestic products and inflation rates, yielding inference robust … to the `Great Moderation.' We find little evidence of trend stationarity, and mixed evidence regarding inflation …
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