The aim of this study is to examine empirically the validity of PPP in the context of unit root tests based on linear and non-linear models of the real effective exchange rate of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. For this purpose, we apply the Harvey et al. (2008)...

Este trabalho tem como objetivo principal o estudo do comportamento da taxa de câmbio a partir da flutuação da moeda brasileira em 1999 – momento em que o Brasil adotou o regime de câmbio flutuante. Analisa-se, através do modelo de paridade de poder de compra, se efetivamente a moeda...

Europe is the natural space for the integration of the Middle East and North Africa countries (MENA) and the Central and Eastern Europe Countries (CEEC). By their small economic size, these countries revolve around the European pole with which they perform the bulk of their trade. The...

It is shown that the 36 country real effective exchange rate (REER) of India, which is I(1), becomes stationary once a single exogenous shock (corresponding to the implementation of the liberalization policy by the government of India) is separated from its stochastic component and modelled as a...

Substantial amount of studies have examined the validity of mean-reversion on the real exchange rate. However very limited studies of this nature have been conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa countries, particularly energy exporting countries, hence this study endeavors to find evidence for or...