Currency Crises and Purchasing Power Parity in the Asian Countries: Evidence Based on Second-Generation Panel Unit-Root Tests

Authors

  • Siew-Voon Soon Universiti Putra Malaysia
  • Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah Universiti Putra Malaysia
  • Nurul Sima Md. Shariff Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia,
  • Saifuzzaman Ibrahim Universiti Putra Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22452/MJES.vol54no1.3

Keywords:

Asian, cross-sectional dependency, real exchange rate, second-generation models

Abstract

This study applies a second-generation panel unit-root tests to determine the stochastic properties of real exchange rates for 14 Asian countries. Based on three popular alternative definitions of a currency crisis, we identify the several important currency crisis episodes in the region. The purchasing power parity (PPP) hypothesis was overwhelmingly supported after accommodating these heterogeneous noisy and unstable observations. Our panel unit-root test that controls for cross-sectional dependence and is robust to structural breaks confirms that the crisis in all the countries fits well with the second-generation models of currency crisis, that is, the root cause of the currency crises may not lie in economic fundamentals. PPP relation emerges when breaks and cross country dependency has been taken into account for these 14 countries.

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Author Biographies

Siew-Voon Soon, Universiti Putra Malaysia

Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management

Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah, Universiti Putra Malaysia

Financial Economics Research Centre, Faculty of Economics and Management

Nurul Sima Md. Shariff, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia,

Faculty of Science and Technology

Saifuzzaman Ibrahim, Universiti Putra Malaysia

Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management

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Published

2017-05-03

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