This study analyzes validity of the relative purchasing power parity (PPP) and the uncovered interest rate parity (IRP) theories for the dollar/euro exchange rate. The period of analysis is from 1990 to 2003. The dollar/euro exchange rate represents the currencies of a country, the USA, and a region, the Euro Area. The basic data needed for this study are the dollar/euro exchange rate, and the inflation and the interest rates for the USA and the Euro Area. Since the Euro Area was officially formed on January 1st, 1999, we had difficulty in finding the data for the Euro Area. For the lacking Euro Area data, synthetic values are created by using the individual data of Euro Area countries. These synthetic values are treated as the equivalents of the actual values and are used in the parity implied dollar/euro exchange rate calculations. The parity implied dollar/euro exchange rates are compared with the actual dollar/euro exchange rates. Our results indicate that the parity implied dollar/euro exchange rates are statistically significantly different from the actual dollar/euro exchange rates. In other words, both the PPP and the IRP theories do not hold for the dollar/euro exchange rate.

This dissertation examines the role of the fundamental economic variables (price levels, interest rates, and income levels) in the determination of foreign exchange rates during the period 1973-1978. Purchasing power parity, the International Fisher Effect, and the relationship of exchange rates with income levels through the marginal propensity to import were integrated, as suggested by the literature, and a fairly reasonable specification of a model for exchange rate determination was measured. The results of speculation tests indicate destabilizing results for some currencies and stabilizing results for the others; the coefficient of expectation tests, however, lend support to the destabilizing hypothesis. The conclusion of the research, therefore, is that the exchange rates of the major industrial countries which are of prime importance to the international financier and investor, and to the student of international finance and trade, are primarily determined, not by the fundamental economic variables, but by speculative forces which are believed to be of a destabilizing nature.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / Este estudo investiga os efeitos da estabilizaÃÃo da inflaÃÃo no Brasil nos Ãndices de preÃos regionais atravÃs da teoria da Paridade do Poder de Compra. Para tanto, utilizamos o Ãndice Nacional de PreÃos ao Consumidor Amplo, IPCA, abrangendo as nove regiÃes metropolitanas brasileiras durante o perÃodo de 1989 a 2011. Iniciamos nossa anÃlise com o teste de Perron e Yabu (2009) com o objetivo de verificar possÃveis quebras estruturais nas sÃries de cÃmbio real entre as regiÃes metropolitanas. Visando confirmar a hipÃtese da Paridade do Poder de Compra para o Brasil, aplicamos o teste de raiz unitÃria ERS (1996) bem como o teste de Kim (2000) posteriormente modificado por Harvey, Leybourne e Taylor (2006) para verificar possÃveis mudanÃas de persistÃncia nas sÃries. Durante o perÃodo analisado foi detectada uma diminuiÃÃo da persistÃncia das sÃries, creditamos esse fenÃmeno ao controle inflacionÃrio com o implemento do Plano Real, evidenciando que a estabilidade dos preÃos influi positivamente na validaÃÃo da hipÃtese da Paridade do Poder de Compra. / This study investigates the effects of inflation stabilization in Brazil in regional price indices through the theory of Purchasing Power Parity. We used the National Index of Consumer Prices Broad, IPCA, covering nine metropolitan regions during the period of 1989 to 2011. We begin our analysis with the test of Perron and Yabu (2009) in order to check for possible structural breaks in the series of real exchange rates between the metropolitan areas. To confirm the hypothesis of Purchasing Power Parity for Brazil, we apply the unit root test ERS (1996) as well as the test of Kim (2000) later modified by Harvey, Leybourne and Taylor (2006) to check for possible changes of persistence in the series. During the period analyzed was detected a decrease of the persistence of the series, we credit this phenomenon to the implement of the Real Plan, showing that price stability positively influence the validation of the hypothesis of Purchasing Power Parity.

[pt] A paridade do poder de compra da moeda (“PPP”), uma das teorias mais discutidas no meio acadêmico, sustenta que a taxa de câmbio nominal entre duas moedas deve ser igual à relação dos níveis de preços agregados entre os dois países, de modo que uma unidade de moeda de um país terá o mesmo poder de compra em um país estrangeiro. O objetivo deste trabalho é investigar a validade da teoria de PPP e a inovação que trazemos para a literatura é a aplicação desta teoria para o desenvolvimento de uma estratégia quantitativa de compra/venda de pares de moedas utilizando as séries diárias de preços calculadas pela PriceStats. Os resultados encontrados aqui sugerem que, apesar de identificarmos uma relação entre o diferencial de inflação e movimentos da taxa de câmbio nominal nas séries do PriceStats, observamos um desempenho quantitativo pior das nossas estratégias de investimento em moedas baseadas no modelo de Paridade do Poder de Compra da Moeda (PPP) vis à vis outros modelos padrão dentro da literatura financeira. Por outro lado, para pares específicos de moedas, encontramos números interessantes quando baseamos nossa estratégia nos modelos de PPP, observando Hit Ratio superior a 50% e retorno acumulado positivo da estratégia. / [en] The Purchasing power parity (PPP), one of the most consolidated theories in academia, holds that the nominal exchange rate between two currencies must be equal to the ratio of aggregate price levels between the two countries, so that a currency unit of one country will have the same purchasing power in a foreign country. The objective of this work is to investigate the validity of the PPP theory and the innovation that we bring to the literature is using this theory to the develop a quantitative strategy to buy/sell currency pairs using the daily price series calculated by PriceStats. The results found here suggest that, despite identifying a relationship between the inflation differential and nominal exchange rate movements in the Price Stats series, we observe a worse quantitative performance of our currency investment strategies based on the Power Parity model of Purchase vis a vis the standard models within the financial literature. On the other hand, for specific currency pairs, we found interesting numbers when we based our strategy on PPP models, observing a Hit Ratio above 50% and a positive cumulative return of the strategy, results very similar to those found for the reference models already mentioned within the financial literature.

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Östersjön har alltid varit en viktig knutpunkt för de länder som angränsar dit för att göra det möjligt att handla med varandra och på så sätt skapa en internationell marknad sinsemellan varandra. Under 1700-1800-talet tog produktionen fart och tack vare merkantilismen utvecklades den internationella handeln. För att fastställa deras växelkurs har många länder använt sig av olika myntfot såsom till exempel guldmyntfoten där valutans värde bestämdes utifrån värdet på motsvarande mängd guld vilket innebär att växelkurserna var fasta. Utifrån guldmyntfoten utvecklades teorierna lagen om ett pris och köpkraftsparitet med principerna om att en enhet valuta ska ha samma köpkraft även i andra länder vilket innebär att en vara ska kunna köpas för samma mängd av valutan oavsett om det är inrikes eller utrikes. Dessa teorier har studerats flertalet gånger, både för kort och lång sikt, med fåtalet länder till ett större antal. Denna studie använder sig av teoriernas grundidé och testar huruvida PPP i dess absoluta samt relativa form håller för Östersjöns handelsområde. För att kunna testa detta har två ekonometriska tester av de variabler som används gjorts, stationäritetstest och kointegrationstest. Stationäritetstestet visade att alla variabler förutom de tidsserier som användes för att testa relativ PPP led av icke-stationäritet och därmed behövdes differentieras för att kunna användas för att testa PPP. Kointegrationstestet visade att ingen av tidsserierna led av kointegration vilket medförde att vidare korrigeringsmodeller ej behövdes göras. Resultatet från de ekonometriska skattningarna visade på att absolut och relativ PPP ej kunde bekräftas, ej heller förnekas, då inga signifikanta koefficienter kunde konstateras. Vid testandet av real växelkurs för relativ PPP gavs signifikanta tidsserier men ej i enlighet med nollhypotesen och därmed förkastades nollhypotesen om att relativ PPP håller. Utifrån resultatet dras slutsatsen att PPP ej kan bekräftas utan att vidare studier måste göras. / The Baltic sea has always been an important transit hub for neighboring countries and the sea have made ​​it possible for the countries to trade with each other and thus create an international trade among themselves to each other. During 1700-1800's, the production took off and because of the mercantilism international trade developed. To establish their exchange rate, many countries have followed different standards, such as the gold standard where the currency's value was determined from the value of the corresponding quantity of gold which implies that the exchange rates were fixed. Based on the gold standard different theories was developed, such as the law of one price and purchasing power parity with the principles that a single currency will have the same purchasing power in other countries, which implies that a commodity should be bought for the same amount of currency, whether it is domestic or foreign. These theories have been studied several times, both for the short and long term, with the few countries to a greater number. In order to test this, two econometric tests of the variables were made​​, stationarity test and cointegration test. The stationarity test showed that all variables except the time series that was used to test relative PPP suffered from non-stationarity and therefore needed to be differentiated to be used to test the PPP. The cointegration test showed that no one of the time series suffered of cointegration and therefore further correction models was not needed to be done. The results from the econometric estimates showed that absolute and relative PPP could not be confirmed, nor denied, since no significant coefficients were identified. In the testing of real exchange rate for relative PPP significant time series were given but not in accordance with the nullhypothesis and therefore the null hypothesis is rejected that the relative PPP holds. From the results it is concluded that the PPP cannot be confirmed without that further studies must be done.

Made available in DSpace on 2010-04-20T21:00:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 constantinjancsoturma2004.pdf.jpg: 19413 bytes, checksum: ed06888f22db5d20307eed8c9dee97e2 (MD5) constantinjancsoturma2004.pdf: 659395 bytes, checksum: 1a83b23975bb0427aa0d8ae3febe959b (MD5) constantinjancsoturma2004.pdf.txt: 162651 bytes, checksum: 9fa13fc36c2ae6510152b6163bdc863d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-07-02T00:00:00Z / Purchasing power parity (PPP) was formally proposed as a theoretical model to explain the behavior of the exchange-rate by Gustav Cassel almost one century ago. Obtaining empirical evidence to support the validity of PPP, however, has traditionally been a controversial issue. Nevertheless, a consensus slowly appears to be emerging from literature, suggesting that PPP holds, but only in the long run. Although PPP is not useful to predict the behavior of the exchange-rate in a time frame that would make it a useful application in the context of the foreign exchange market, it is widely used in applied macroeconomics, often as a long-term restriction for the behavior of the exchange-rate in general equilibrium models. In any case, as Dornbush and Krugman remind us, “Under the skin of any international economist lies a deep-seated belief in some variant of the PPP theory of the exchange rate”. This dissertation proposes to assess the evidence for PPP in more than a century of data for the largest Latin American economies. In the empirical literature, most of the empirical work testing the validity of PPP in the long run uses data from the developed countries (in part, simply because they are more readily available). Taylor (2002) includes Argentina, Brazil and Mexico in his sample of 20 developed and developing nations. Other studies focus specifically on the data of one or the other economy in Latin America (for example, Délano 1998 tests the PPP hypothesis using data from Chile between 1835 and 1995). But there has been little work done on this field focusing specifically on data from Latin America. Following the usual methodology described in literature – unit root tests to assess whether the real exchange rate is stationary, applying error correction mechanisms and cointegration tests – the evidence obtained from Latin American data reinforces the thesis that PPP holds in the long run. / A teoria da paridade do poder de compra (PPP) foi formalizada há quase um século por Gustav Cassel como um paradigma para explicar o comportamento das taxas de câmbio. Sua comprovação empírica é historicamente controversa, mas aos poucos, a literatura parece convergir para o consenso de que a PPP é válida, mas apenas no longo prazo. Ainda que a PPP não sirva para prever o comportamento da taxa de câmbio no curto prazo, seu uso é disseminado na macroeconomia aplicada como restrição de longo prazo para a taxa de câmbio. Como lembram Dornbusch e Krugman, 'Sob a pele de qualquer economista internacional, está enraizada uma fé em alguma variante da teoria da PPP'. O presente estudo se propõe a avaliar as evidências para a PPP a partir de mais de cem anos de história das maiores economias da América Latina. Na literatura, a maior parte dos estudos da PPP no longo prazo utiliza dados de países desenvolvidos (em parte, por causa da disponibilidade dos dados). Taylor (2002) incluiu Argentina, Brasil e México na sua amostra de 20 países desenvolvidos e em desenvolvimento. Há também alguns estudos que tratam especificamente de um ou outro país da região (por exemplo, Délano 1998, que testa a PPP com dados do Chile de 1835 a 1995). Seguindo os métodos usuais descritos na literatura – testes de raiz unitária para se avaliar a estacionariedade da taxa de câmbio real,de aplicação de mecanismos de correção de erro e testes de co-integração – chega-se à conclusão que a evidência obtida a partir dos dados da América Latina é favorável à tese de existência da PPP no longo prazo.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / This work aims to provide non-biased estimates of the speed of reversion of deviations from the PPP for 11 Brazilian cities, between 1991 and 2013, using the methodology proposed by Choi, Mark and Sul (2006), which makes use of a panel estimation method with correction for three possible sources of bias, those being: the bias of inappropriate grouping of cross-section units with heterogeneous coefficients, the Nickell bias and the bias arising from the temporal aggregation of price indexes. The half-lives obtained are of the order of 4.41 and 3.18 years with Brazil and the Average as references, respectively, and median half-life of 3.13 years, when considering all Brazilian cities analyzed as the numeraire. The half-lives found were also substantially lower than those obtained for American cities. Furthermore, 33.33 % of the half-lives obtained were inferior to the consensus range suggested by Rogoff (1996) of 3-5 years, and none surpassed that range. / O presente estudo se propÃe a prover estimativas nÃo viesadas da velocidade de reversÃo dos desvios da PPC para 11 cidades brasileiras entre 1991 e 2013 atravÃs da metodologia proposta por Choi, Mark e Sul (2006) que usam um mÃtodo de estimaÃÃo em painel com correÃÃo para trÃs possÃveis fontes de viÃs, quais sejam, viÃs de agrupamento inapropriado de unidades cross-sections com coeficientes heterogÃneos, viÃs de Nickell e o viÃs oriundo da agregaÃÃo temporal dos Ãndices de preÃos. As meias-vidas obtidas sÃo da ordem de 4.41 e 3.18 anos tendo Brasil e MÃdia como referÃncia, respectivamente, e meia-vida mediana de 3.13 anos considerando todas as cidades brasileiras analisadas como numerÃrio. As meias-vidas encontradas tambÃm se mostraram substancialmente inferiores Ãquelas obtidas para as cidades americanas. AlÃm disso, 33.33% das meias-vidas aqui obtidas se mostraram inferiores ao intervalo consensual proposto por Rogoff (1996) de 3 a 5 anos, e nenhuma o ultrapassou.

This thesis is focused on the description of the purchasing power parity theory and the theory of the interest rate as the fundamental aspects of exchange rate movements. A large part is devoted to the problems of equilibrium exchange rates and associated anomalies that these equilibrium rates are largely affected. The aim is to highlight the pros and cons of these theories and their practical use in nowadays world. Incomplete validity of purchasing power parity is analyzed by using available data which also leads to examine the presence of deviation from the equilibirum value. These anomalies are divided into economic origin anomalies and anomalies arising from non-market intervention. Despite the frequent critism the theory of purchasing power parity is still the most popular and frequently published theory.

The paper analyses validity of main exchange rate theories in case of the Czech crown. Investigated relationships comprise purchasing power parity, interest rate parity and real interest monetary model. Technical part of the analysis involves cointegration, namely Johansen's method based on vector autoregressive models. Two currency pairs are in the focus: CZK/EUR and CZK/USD. Empirical calculations did not prove the absolute validity of the theories but pointed out to other factors of exchange rate, such as convergence process, impacts on inflation targeting decisions, non-monetarist determinants and the recent financial crisis.