Financial integration of East Asian economies: evidence from real interest parity

Authors: Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi¹; Haw, Chan Tze²; Masih, A. Mansur M.³; Lau, Evan⁴

Source: Applied Economics, Volume 43, Number 16, 1 June 2011 , pp. 1979-1990(12)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

In this article, we investigate the financial linkages between the East Asian economies with Japan and the United States. We test for long-run Real Interest-rate Parity (RIP) using an array of panel-data techniques, including recent techniques developed by Breuer et al. (2002) and Carrion-i-Silvestre et al. (2005). This study offers two important results: first, the failure to account for structural breaks in the industrialized countries and Asian emerging economies is likely to provide evidence of nonstationary series that are stationary. Second, we found strong evidence that the parity condition holds in all the Asian countries. The failure of earlier studies to confirm mean reversion of Real Interest-rate Differential (RID) may reflect the choice of estimation/testing procedure rather than any inherent deficiency in the RIP.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036840902902243

Affiliations: 1: Faculty of Economics and Management, Department of Economics,Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM SerdangSelangor, Malaysia 2: Faculty of Business and Law,Multimedia University, Jalan Ayer Keroh Lama 75450, Bukit BeruangMelaka, Malaysia 3: Department of Finance and Economics,King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, KFUPM, PO Box 1764Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia 4: Faculty of Economics and Business,Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), 94300 Kota SamarahanSarawak, Malaysia

Publication date: 2011-06-01

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