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Purchasing power parity and the unit root tests: a robust analysis

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  • Xiao, Zhijie
  • Lima, Luiz Renato Regis de Oliveira

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Empirical evidence suggests that real exchange rate is characterized by the presence of near-unity and additive outliers. Recent studeis have found evidence on favor PPP reversion by using the quasi-differencing (Elliott et al., 1996) unit root tests (ERS), which is more efficient against local alternatives but is still based on least squares estimation. Unit root tests basead on least saquares method usually tend to bias inference towards stationarity when additive out liers are present. In this paper, we incorporate quasi-differencing into M-estimation to construct a unit root test that is robust not only against near-unity root but also against nonGaussian behavior provoked by assitive outliers. We re-visit the PPP hypothesis and found less evidemce in favor PPP reversion when non-Gaussian behavior in real exchange rates is taken into account.

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  • Xiao, Zhijie & Lima, Luiz Renato Regis de Oliveira, 2004. "Purchasing power parity and the unit root tests: a robust analysis," FGV EPGE Economics Working Papers (Ensaios Economicos da EPGE) 552, EPGE Brazilian School of Economics and Finance - FGV EPGE (Brazil).
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