Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75502 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 218
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Previous findings of long-run purchasing power parity come mainly from data for industrial countries, raising the issue of whether the results suffer sample-selection bias and exaggerate the general relevance of parity reversion. This study uncovers substantial cross-country heterogeneity in the persistence of deviations from parity. The results show that it is more likely, rather than less likely, to find parity reversion for developing countries than industrial countries. Although some persistence variations may partly reflect country differences in structural characteristics such as inflation experience and government spending, a considerable portion of those variations seems unaccounted for.
Subjects: 
Parity deviations
cross-country persistence differences
structural deterterminants
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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