Panel cointegration and the neutrality of money
Författare
Summary, in English
Most econometric methods for testing the proposition of long-run monetary neutrality rely on the assumption that money and real output do not cointegrate, a result that is usually supported by the data. This paper argues that these results can be attributed in part to the low power of univariate tests, and that a violation of the noncointegration assumption is likely to result in a nonrejection of the neutrality proposition. To alleviate this problem, two new and more powerful panel cointegration tests are proposed that can be used under quite general conditions. The empirical results obtained from applying these tests to a panel covering ten countries between 1870 and 1986 suggest money and real output are cointegrated, and hence that the neutrality proposition must be rejected.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2009
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1-26
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Empirical Economics
Volym
36
Issue
1
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Förlag
Physica Verlag
Ämne
- Economics
Nyckelord
- Monetary neutrality
- Panel cointegration testing
Conference name
2nd Italian Congress of Econometrics and Empirical Economics
Conference date
2007-01-25 - 2007-01-26
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0377-7332