This paper examines empirically the Phillips curve relationship for the Chinese economy. We use quarterly data that go back to 1978 and employ a multivariate rather than univariate method in the construction of gap measures for inflation, money and output jointly with reliable error bands. Our...

The threshold vector error correction model is a popular tool for the analysis of spatial price transmission and market integration. In the literature, the profile likelihood estimator is the preferred choice for estimating this model. Yet, in certain settings this estimator performs poorly. In...