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Elsevier, Journal of International Money and Finance, 3(20), p. 379-399

DOI: 10.1016/s0261-5606(00)00043-7

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Nonlinear Adjustment to Purchasing Power Parity in the Post Bretton Woods Era

Journal article published in 2001 by Christopher F. Baum ORCID, John T. Barkoulas, Mustafa Caglayan
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Abstract

This paper models the dynamics of adjustment to long-run purchasing power parity (PPP) over the post-Bretton Woods period in a nonlinear framework consistent with the presence of frictions in international trade. We estimate exponential smooth transition autoregressive (ESTAR) models of deviations from PPP, which are obtained using the Johansen cointegration method, for both consumer price index (CPI) and wholesale price index (WPI) based measures and a broad set of US trading partners. In several cases, we find clear evidence of a mean-reverting dynamic process for sizable deviations from PPP, with the equilibrium tendency varying nonlinearly with the magnitude of disequilibrium. Analysis of impulse response functions also supports a nonlinear dynamic structure, but convergence to long-run PPP in the post-Bretton Woods era is very slow.