State of the Art Unit Root Tests and the PPP Puzzle

Claude Lopez, Chris Murray and David Papell

Macroeconomics from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Using median-unbiased estimation, recent research has questioned the validity of Rogoff’s “remarkable consensus” of 3-5 year half-lives of deviations from PPP. These estimates, however, are based on unit root tests with low power. We extend median-unbiased estimation to the efficient unit root test of Elliott, Rothenberg, and Stock (1996). We find that median-unbiased estimation based on the more powerful unit root test has the potential to tighten confidence intervals for half- lives. Using long horizon real exchange rate data, we find that the typical lower bound of the confidence intervals for median-unbiased half-lives is above 3 years. Thus, while previous confidence intervals for half-lives are consistent with virtually anything, our tighter confidence intervals now rule out economic models with nominal rigidities as candidates for explaining the observed behavior of real exchange rates. Therefore, while we obtain more information using efficient unit root tests on longer term data, this information moves us away from solving the PPP puzzle.

Keywords: PPP; Unit; root; test; Median-unbiased; DF-GLS; test (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 F3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2003-10-08
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Journal Article: State of the Art Unit Root Tests and Purchasing Power Parity (2005)
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