Citation
Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi and Liew, Venus Khim-Sen and Chan, Tze Haw
(2009)
The real interest rate differential : international evidence based on non-linear unit root tests.
Bulletin of Economic Research, 61 (1).
pp. 83-94.
ISSN 1467-8586
Abstract
This paper aims at testing international parity conditions by using non-linear unit root tests advocated by Kapetanios et al. (2003, KSS). Results from the KSS tests based on 17 countries (G7 and 10 Asian countries) overwhelmingly show that the adjustment of real interest rates towards real interest rate parity (RIP) follows a non-linear process
except for the Taiwan, Hong Kong and Philippines relationships with both the USA and Japan. Overall, the empirical results are in favour of RIP using theUSAand Japan as the centre countries but only if non-linearities are accounted for in the data-generating process. Our
findings confirmthat interest rate differentials, like the real exchange rates reported in recent literature, display a non-linear mean reversion
process.
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