Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Paper Series,
Uppsala University, Department of Economics
No 2008:1: Testing for Purchasing Power Parity in Cointegrated Panels
Mikael Carlsson (), Johan Lyhagen () and Pär Österholm ()
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Mikael Carlsson: Research Department, Postal: Sveriges Riksbank, 103 37 Stockholm, Sweden
Johan Lyhagen: Department of Information Science, Division of Statistics, Postal: Uppsala University, P.O. Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Pär Österholm: Department of Economics, Postal: Uppsala University, P.O. Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Abstract: This paper applies the recently developed maximum-likelihood-panel cointegration method of Larsson and Lyhagen (2007) to test the strong PPP hypothesis during the recent ‡oat period on data for the G7 countries. This method is robust in several important dimensions relative to previous methods, including the well-known issue of cross-sectional dependence of error terms. The findings using this new method are contrasted to those from the Pedroni (1995) cointegration tests and fully modified OLS and dynamic OLS estimators of the cointegrating vectors. Although the shortcomings of previous methods do matter in various cases, the overall results are the same across approaches: The strong PPP hypothesis is forcefully rejected in favor of the weak PPP hypothesis with heterogeneous cointegrating vectors. As a consequence, the strong PPP hypothesis does not even seem to be an acceptable approximation of observed data.
Keywords: Purchasing Power Parity; Panel Cointegration; Maximum Likelihood; Fully Modified OLS; Dynamic OLS
20 pages, December 10, 2007
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