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Measuring half-lives: using a non-parametric bootstrap approach

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Guglielmo Maria Caporale
Mario Cerrato
Nicola Spagnolo

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This paper extends the Murray and Papell (2002) study by using a non-parametric bootstrap approach which allows for non-normality, and focusing on quarterly real exchange rate in twenty OECD countries in the post-1973 floating period. Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) regressions were run, and the half-lives (and confidence intervals) estimated from the corresponding impulse response functions. Further, an approximately median-unbiased estimator of the autoregressive parameters was used and the implied point estimates and confidence intervals reported. It is found that accounting for non-normality results in even higher estimates of the degree of persistence of PPP deviations, but, as in Murray and Papell (2002) , the confidence intervals are so wide that no strong conclusions are warranted on the existence of a PPP puzzle.

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Volume (Year): 1 (2005)
Issue (Month): 1 (January)
Pages: 1-4
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  1. Mario Cerrato & Neil Kellard & Nicholas Sarantis, 2005. "The Purchasing Power Parity Persistence Paradigm: Evidence from Black Currency Markets," Money Macro and Finance (MMF) Research Group Conference 2005 34, Money Macro and Finance Research Group. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Murray, Christian J. & Papell, David H., 2002. "The purchasing power parity persistence paradigm," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 56(1), pages 1-19, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  5. Andrews, Donald W K, 1993. "Exactly Median-Unbiased Estimation of First Order Autoregressive/Unit Root Models," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 61(1), pages 139-65, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Qian Chen & David E. Giles, 2007. "A Saddlepoint Approximation to the Distribution of the Half-Life Estimator in an Autoregressive Model: New Insights Into the PPP Puzzle," Econometrics Working Papers 0703, Department of Economics, University of Victoria. [Downloadable!]
  2. Jae Kim & Param Silvapulle & Rob J. Hyndman, 2006. "Half-Life Estimation based on the Bias-Corrected Bootstrap: A Highest Density Region Approach," Monash Econometrics and Business Statistics Working Papers 11/06, Monash University, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics. [Downloadable!]
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