Testing Real Interest Parity in Emerging Markets /

The paper finds significant deviations between short-term emerging market real interest rates and world real interest rates primarily due to the inflationary expectations of the local investor base. We test for long-run real interest convergence in emerging markets using a time varying panel unit ro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Banerjee, Abhisek
Other Authors: Singh, Manmohan
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/249
Online Access:Full text available on IMF