The aim of this paper is to investigate whether price dynamics is homogeneous across the Eurozone countries. Relying on monthly data over the January 1970-July 2011 period, we test for the absolute purchasing power parity (PPP) hypothesis through the implementation of second-generation panel...

This paper evaluates the fiscal sustainability hypothesis for eight Latin American countries, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Paraguay and Uruguay, during the period 1960 - 2009. Using second generation cointegration panel data models, we test whether Government revenues and...

This paper inquires into the existence of dynamic capabilities and competitive advantage in Mexican firms. Dynamic capabilities refer to the particular nonimitability capacity firms possess to shape, reshape, configure, and reconfigure their assets so as to respond to changing technologies and...

The paper investigates if the most popular alternative to the purchasing parity power approach (PPP) to estimate equilibrium exchange rates, the fundamental equilibrium exchange rate (FEER) influences exchange rate dynamics in the long run. For a large panel of industrialized and emerging...

Resorting to stationary and non-stationary panel data econometrics we offer tests for "Ricardo's 93% theory of value" for 10 OECD countries over different time periods and aggregation levels. The theory does not find empirical support.