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Deviations of Exchange Rates from Purchasing Power Parity: A Story Featuring Two Monetary Unions

By Ronald MacDonald, Tamim Bayoumi

May 1, 1998

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Ronald MacDonald, and Tamim Bayoumi. Deviations of Exchange Rates from Purchasing Power Parity: A Story Featuring Two Monetary Unions, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1998) accessed November 13, 2024
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Summary

We examine the mean-reverting properties of real exchange rates, by comparing the unit root properties of a group of international real exchange rates with two groups of intra-national real exchange rates. Strikingly, we find that while the international real rates taken as a group appear mean-reverting, the intra-national rates are not. This is consistent with the view that while monetary shocks may be mean-reverting over the medium term, underlying real factors do generate long-term trends in real exchange rates.

Subject: Economic integration, Exchange rate analysis, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Monetary unions, Purchasing power parity, Real exchange rates

Keywords: Country result, Europe, Exchange rate analysis, Exchange rates, Mean reversion, Monetary unions, Panel unit root test, Purchasing power parity, Real exchange rates, Standard error, Stationarity, Testing method, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    17

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  • DOI:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1998/069

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0691998

  • ISBN:

    9781451960846

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 46, No. 1, March 1999.