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Finding theoretical and empirical solutions to the three major puzzles of exchange rate economics : applications in respect of Southern African macroeconomic data
Thesis (PhD (Economics))--University of Pretoria, 2008.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/25397 Finding theoretical and empirical solutions to the three major puzzles of exchange rate economics : applications in respect of Southern African macroeconomic data Gupta, Rangan Van Eyden, Renee thabo.mokoena@resbank.co.za Mokoena, Thabo Mishack Exchange rate Southern African Development Community (SADC) Southern African macroeconomic data UCTD Thesis (PhD (Economics))--University of Pretoria, 2008. The thesis focuses on finding solutions to major exchange rate puzzles, which were discussed in detail by Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000). The first puzzle is the purchasing power parity puzzle. The first version of the latter puzzle is concerned with whether a real exchange rate reverts in the mean. To resolve the puzzle in the context of Southern African Development Community countries, the thesis uses Bayesian unit root testing and nonlinear nonstationarity tests associated with the smooth transition autoregressive family of models. According to Bayesian unit root test results, the nonstationarity hypothesis received small posterior probability relative to other hypotheses. In this setting, the Bayesian results strongly supported the hypothesis that all the real exchange rates were trend-stationary autoregressive processes. However, it should be pointed out that Ahking (2004) has found these tests to be biased toward trend stationarity. Nonlinear nonstationarity tests presented evidence that four out of ten of SADC’s real exchange rates could be regarded as nonlinear globally ergodic processes, while others could be considered random walks. The thesis relies on local-to-unity asymptotic theory and Rossi (2005a) to deal with the half-life version of the PPP puzzle. The half-life version is that a high degree of exchange rate volatility is generally associated with an implausibly slow speed of mean reversion. Depending on the robustness of the methods used, empirical evidence points to several half-lives of less than 36 months, but the confidence intervals of half-life deviations from PPP are found in all cases, as in Rossi’s work, to be too wide to be informative enough to resolve the puzzle. In addition, the thesis undertakes Hinich and Chong (2007) class tests of fractional integration to ensure that a long memory process is not mistaken for a nonstationary process in finding solutions to the PPP puzzle. The results show that at 1 per cent and 5 per cent significance levels, the real exchange rates associated with South Africa, Mauritius and Swaziland are not fractionally integrated. Tanzania’s real exchange rate was found to be stationary-fractionally integrated but with the antipersistence property. Other currencies were found to be nonstationary-fractionally integrated. The third puzzle is the exchange rate determination puzzle, which is as follows: In the short run there seems to be no reliable determinants of exchange rates. The thesis relies on the market microstructure approach to find the determinants of South Africa’s exchange rate. In this context, the thesis utilises autoregressive distributed lag model of cointegration to identify the fundamental and non-fundamental determinants of the rand/dollar exchange rate. The main contribution of the thesis to the economic literature is the usage of newly developed methods in an attempt to resolve the above-mentioned puzzles. Economics unrestricted 2013-09-06T21:10:22Z 2008-07-02 2013-09-06T21:10:22Z 2008-04-16 2008-07-02 2008-06-10 Thesis a 2008 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25397 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06102008-103020/ © University of Pretoria 20 application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Exchange rate Southern African Development Community (SADC) Southern African macroeconomic data UCTD Finding theoretical and empirical solutions to the three major puzzles of exchange rate economics : applications in respect of Southern African macroeconomic data |
| title | Finding theoretical and empirical solutions to the three major puzzles of exchange rate economics : applications in respect of Southern African macroeconomic data |
| title_full | Finding theoretical and empirical solutions to the three major puzzles of exchange rate economics : applications in respect of Southern African macroeconomic data |
| title_fullStr | Finding theoretical and empirical solutions to the three major puzzles of exchange rate economics : applications in respect of Southern African macroeconomic data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Finding theoretical and empirical solutions to the three major puzzles of exchange rate economics : applications in respect of Southern African macroeconomic data |
| title_short | Finding theoretical and empirical solutions to the three major puzzles of exchange rate economics : applications in respect of Southern African macroeconomic data |
| title_sort | finding theoretical and empirical solutions to the three major puzzles of exchange rate economics applications in respect of southern african macroeconomic data |
| topic | Exchange rate Southern African Development Community (SADC) Southern African macroeconomic data UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25397 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06102008-103020/ |