Identification of a basket peg: the model specification controversy

Imad A. Moosa

Applied Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 23, issue 11, 795-800

Abstract: A controversy has been triggered by the Chinese exchange rate regime shift from a single currency peg to an alleged basket peg. The controversy is about the specification of the model used to represent the basket as three models have been used: levels, log levels and first log differences. It is suggested that one way to confirm the validity or otherwise of a model is to use data on the special drawing rights exchange rate since the currency weights are known. The results show that the estimated weights are almost identical no matter which model and which numeraire is used. However, nonnested model selection criteria show that the best model is that written in levels, simply because this is what is used in practice by central banks adopting basket pegs.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2015.1109033

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