Measuring Misalignment : Purchasing Power Parity and East Asian Currencies in the 1990s /

The concept of purchasing power parity (PPP) is used to evaluate whether eight East Asian currencies were overvalued on the eve of the 1997 crises. The Johansen and Horvath-Watson cointegration test procedures are applied to bilateral and multilateral exchange rates, deflated using CPIs, producer pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chinn, Menzie
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/120
Online Access:Full text available on IMF