This article employs Hansen's (1995) Covariate Augmented Dickey-Fuller (CADF) test to reexamine the issue of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) using post-Bretton Woods exchange rate data for 20 industrialized countries. Instead of just using a single covariate as in the literature, we implement the...

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...

This article analyses investment risk in the housing market by examining volatility properties of house prices for the UK. We use both ARCH and GARCH models to estimate price conditional heteroscedasticity and find evidence of a time-varying property in the volatilities of the house price...