Long Run Macroeconomic Relations in the Global Economy

70 Pages Posted: 8 Feb 2007

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Stephane Dees

European Central Bank (ECB)

Sean Holly

University of Cambridge - Department of Applied Economics

M. Hashem Pesaran

University of Southern California - Department of Economics

L. Vanessa Smith

University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies

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Date Written: May 2007

Abstract

This paper focuses on testing long run macroeconomic relations for interest rates, equity, prices and exchange rates suggested by arbitrage in financial and goods markets. It uses the global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model to test for long run restrictions in each country/region conditioning on the rest of the world. Bootstrapping is used to compute both the empirical distribution of the impulse responses and the log-likelihood ratio statistic for over-identifying restrictions. The paper also examines the speed with which adjustments to the long run relations take place via the persistence profiles. We find strong evidence in favour of the UIP and to a lesser extent the Fisher equation across a number of countries, but our results for the PPP are much weaker. Also the transmission of shocks and subsequent adjustments in financial markets are much faster than those in goods markets.

Keywords: Global VAR, Fisher relationship, Uncovered Interest Rate Parity, Purchasing Power Parity, persistence profile

JEL Classification: C32, E17, F47, R11

Suggested Citation

Dees, Stephane and Holly, Sean and Pesaran, M. Hashem and Smith, L. Vanessa, Long Run Macroeconomic Relations in the Global Economy (May 2007). CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1904, ECB Working Paper No. 750, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=962048 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.962048

Stephane Dees

European Central Bank (ECB) ( email )

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Sean Holly

University of Cambridge - Department of Applied Economics ( email )

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M. Hashem Pesaran (Contact Author)

University of Southern California - Department of Economics ( email )

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Los Angeles, CA 90089
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L. Vanessa Smith

University of York - Department of Economics and Related Studies ( email )

Heslington
University of York
York, YO10 5DD
United Kingdom

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