A revisit on real interest rate parity hypothesis – simulation evidence from efficient unit root tests

A set of unit root tests are applied to test the existence of long-run real interest rate parity among the G-10 countries over the period 1971M1 to 2007M2. Rather than trusting the asymptotic distributions, this article uses simulation techniques to establish the small sample distributions of these tests, conditional on the stationary and nonstationary processes. The empirical results indicate that the tests have stable finite-sample sizes and higher size-adjusted powers such that the two estimated processes can be distinguished from each other. Thus, for six of the nine countries, their series are more likely to come from the estimated Autoregressive (AR) stationary process than from the nonstationary process. Noticeably, the testing results are rather different from those using the asymptotic distributions, in which only three countries support the real interest rate parity.     

面向绩效预算的基层单位预算绩效评价指标体系规划

剖析财政部近期预算绩效评价部署与远期绩效预算改革定位的政策基调,提出面向绩效预算的预算绩效评价视角,整合绩效目标与预算管理流程,规划绩效预算导向的基层单位预算绩效评价指标体系,弥补现阶段国家主要以中央部门为对象的重点专项预算资金局部试点的制度缺陷。     

Revisiting Purchasing Power Parity in OECD

This study revisits Purchasing Power Parity theory (PPP) in the 34 OECD countries during January 1994–August 2013. We use a new panel stationary test with both sharp breaks and smooth shifts, a novel approach to panel unit-root testing, proposed by Bahmani–Oskooee et al. (2014). The results indicate that the PPP holds in half of the 34 OECD countries. These results indicate the importance of proper modelling of both sharp breaks and smooth shifts in real effective exchange rate series of OECD countries.     

Did financial deregulation help consumers? Access to market-yield instruments

The maturity effect (ME) of futures prices postulated by Samuelson (1965) is re-examined using three nonparametric tests. The consistent entropy asymmetry test by Racine and Maasoumi (2007) indicates that variance is an appropriate risk or uncertainty measure for ME, and value-at-risk and expected shortfall are also adopted. The Kolmogorov–Smirnov dominance test and Wilcoxon rank sum and signed rank test are employed to rank the estimates of the three risk measures under a moving-window framework. The testing outcomes are contingent on futures type, testing method and risk measures. The testing outcomes show mild support for ME.     

FDI与中国二元经济结构演化——一个动态实证分析的考量

FDI理论和二元经济结构理论一直以来都是国内外主流经济学者研究的热点问题。但是从理论上和实证角度把二者结合起来研究的文献并不多见。为此,本文首先从古典增长理论模型出发,论述FDI对我国二元经济结构演化的影响,理论模型研究表明,FDI在促进中国经济非农化的过程中有可能加大了农业与非农业的技术与就业差距,从而加深了二元经济程度。然后重点从实证角度、运用统计分析和因果关系检验、协整检验及修正误差模型检验等计量分析手段深入研究和检验二者的长期与短期动态均衡关系。研究结果表明,FDI在促进中国经济非农化和工业化的同时,在一定程度上却加剧了中国的二元经济程度。对此,本文在最后强调应该加大对FDI的产业调整力度、规范其投资流向,同时建立一套长效机制,实现农村生产要素的市场化与整合,充分挖掘FDI在转变农业生产方式方面的潜在作用,缩小农业与城市部门生产效率的差距。     

上海市外贸发展与经济增长关系实证研究

通过统计计量分析发现,上海对外贸易规模较大且增速较快,对外贸易与经济增长关系密切,二者存在长期稳定的均衡关系,外贸总额或者进口额每增长1%,则GDP将增长0.5%以上。但是,外贸总额、出口额、进口额增长并不是上海经济增长的格兰杰原因,恰好相反,经济增长是短期外贸总额、出口增长的格兰杰原因。     

协整向量误设对相关检验的影响

常用于检验既定协整关系的统计量有tDF和tECM两种，但由于真实数据生成过程未知，估计模型中可能存在一定程度的协整向量误设，从而使统计量的分布特征受到影响。本文首先探讨tDF检验的隐含系数约束α=γ，即短期弹性等于先验长期弹性；其次分析零假设下两种统计量的分布特征，以及先验设定γ对信号噪声比q进而对tECM分布特征的影响；最后在局部备择假设下，给出两种统计量的渐近分布，并表明向量误设会降低协整检验的势，其程度与设定误差d正相关。     

中国金融发展与全要素生产率关系研究

运用柯布一道格拉斯生产函数和增长核算法计算出1978—2006年全国的TFP,并选取FIR作为金融发展指标,对二者进行单位根检验、协整检验,继而运用误差修正模型得出FIR与TFP的回归方程。实证结果显示,长期全要素生产率存在一定的自回归调整,金融发展的短期波动也起到了显著的调整作用。     

Price Effects on Compound Commodities

We examine the effect of simultaneous price changes on the total demand for a group of goods, which we call a compound commodity. Specifically, we consider unit and proportional cost components (e.g., taxes, transportation costs) imposed on compound commodities. If the unit cost is positive, then the proportional cost raises the relative price of the more expensive good, and thus induces substitution towards the less expensive good within this group. Then, the substitution effect of the proportional cost for a compound commodity is non‐negative if and only if the compound commodity and the other goods are, on average, not strongly substitutable.     

Nonlinearity and stationarity of inflation rates: evidence from the euro-zone countries

Earlier studies hardly reject the hypothesis of a unit root in inflation. Few studies have examined the possibility of nonlinearity in inflation and tested nonlinear stationarity of the inflation rates. This study thus intends to fill the gap. This study utilizes the tests for nonlinearity along with the unit root tests that allow for nonlinearity in the variables to examine the stationarity of inflation rates of 12 European countries that formed the Euro Zone (EZ) later in the sample period. The results suggest that the majority of these countries’ inflation rates can be characterized by mean reversion during the floating exchange rate period. Many of them appear to be nonlinear stationary. This finding is essential in conducting applied economic studies for these countries, when constructing models whose validity relies on whether or not inflation is stationary. The results of this study also imply that shocks to inflation have a transitory effect on inflation in the euro area. Therefore, it would be less costly in exercising the policies of disinflation for the monetary authorities of the euro area than for those of the countries with nonstationary inflation.