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dc.contributor.authorSu, J.
dc.contributor.authorCheung, Adrian
dc.contributor.authorRoca, E.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T11:06:33Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T11:06:33Z
dc.date.created2015-05-13T20:00:35Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationSu, J. and Cheung, A. and Roca, E. 2014. Does Purchasing Power Parity hold? New Evidence from Wild-bootstrapped Nonlinear Unit Root Tests in the Presence of Heteroskedasticity. Economic Modelling. 36: pp. 161-171.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8426
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.econmod.2013.09.029
dc.description.abstract

In spite of the extensive research which has already been undertaken, the issue as to whether Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) empirically holds, continues to be strongly debated. Existing studies have been criticized for their reliance on unit root tests which are deemed to suffer from certain weaknesses such as the size distortion bias arising from heteroskedasticity. In this paper, we provide new evidence on PPP based on a new methodology that overcomes this problem. We use the widely accepted KSS (Kapetanios et al., 2003) non-linear unit root tests which we, however, wild bootstrapped. Through Monte Carlo simulation, we demonstrate that the wildbootstrapped KSS is robust to heteroskedasticity-induced size distortion problem. We apply this method to test PPP across 61 countries over the period 1994 to 2012 — a period characterized by a number of crises such as the Asian Financial Crisis, Russian Crisis, dotcom crisis, Global Financial Crises, among others, and therefore, intense heteroskedasticity. Our results provide strong evidence against PPP. This paper contributes to both the international financial economics and econometrics literatures.

dc.publisherElsevier BV * North-Holland
dc.subjectHeteroskedasticity
dc.subjectPurchasing power parity
dc.subjectWild bootstrapping
dc.subject(Nonlinear) unit root test
dc.titleDoes Purchasing Power Parity hold? New Evidence from Wild-bootstrapped Nonlinear Unit Root Tests in the Presence of Heteroskedasticity
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume36
dcterms.source.startPage161
dcterms.source.endPage171
dcterms.source.issn0264-9993
dcterms.source.titleEconomic Modelling
curtin.departmentSchool of Economics and Finance
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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