Deviations Of Exchange Rates From Purchasing Power Parity

Download or read book Deviations of Exchange Rates from Purchasing Power Parity written by Mr.Tamim Bayoumi and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the mean-reverting properties of real exchange rates, by comparing the unit root properties of a group of international real exchange rates with two groups of intra-national real exchange rates. Strikingly, we find that while the international real rates taken as a group appear mean-reverting, the intra-national rates are not. This is consistent with the view that while monetary shocks may be mean-reverting over the medium term, underlying real factors do generate long-term trends in real exchange rates.