A nonparametric measure of convergence towards purchasing power parity
向购买力平价收敛的非参数度量
Abstract It has been claimed that the deviations from purchasing power parity are highly persistent and have quite long half‐lives under the assumption of a linear adjustment of real exchange rates. However, inspired by trade cost models, nonlinear adjustment has been widely employed in recent empirical studies. This paper proposes a simple nonparametric procedure for evaluating the speed of adjustment in the presence of nonlinearity, using the largest Lyapunov exponent of…