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Purchasing Power Parity and the Irish Experience: Unit Roots and Cointegration Tests for Two Industrial Countries

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Fountas, S., Wu, J. Purchasing Power Parity and the Irish Experience: Unit Roots and Cointegration Tests for Two Industrial Countries. Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, 28(2), 201-215. https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.28.2.201
Fountas, Stilianos and Wu, Jyh-lin "Purchasing Power Parity and the Irish Experience: Unit Roots and Cointegration Tests for Two Industrial Countries" Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital 28.2, 1995, 201-215. https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.28.2.201
Fountas, Stilianos/Wu, Jyh-lin (1995): Purchasing Power Parity and the Irish Experience: Unit Roots and Cointegration Tests for Two Industrial Countries, in: Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, vol. 28, iss. 2, 201-215, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.28.2.201

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Purchasing Power Parity and the Irish Experience: Unit Roots and Cointegration Tests for Two Industrial Countries

Fountas, Stilianos | Wu, Jyh-lin

Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, Vol. 28 (1995), Iss. 2 : pp. 201–215

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Stilianos Fountas, Galway

Jyh-lin Wu, Chia-Yi

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Abstract

This paper uses unit root/stationarity and cointegration tests to test for Purchasing Power Parity between Ireland and two industrial countries. Using monthly data for the post-1981 period, we show that the PPP relationship holds provided the rejection of the symmetry and proportionality hypotheses can be attributed to measurement errors in price indexes. In particular, PPP against Germany and the associated link of Irish inflation to the German inflation rate, implies that Ireland’s EMS membership has been justified. It is also shown that, in agreement with the small, open economy theory of PPP, the adjustment towards the PPP relationship takes place primarily through changes in the domestic price level.