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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788700603321

Autore

Banerjee Abhisek

Titolo

Testing Real Interest Parity in Emerging Markets / / Abhisek Banerjee, Manmohan Singh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-1145-8

1-4519-9540-7

1-283-51687-X

9786613829320

1-4519-0962-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (22 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

SinghManmohan

Soggetti

Interest rates - Developing countries - Econometric models

Globalization - Developing countries - Econometric models

Monetary policy - Developing countries - Econometric models

Banks and Banking

Finance: General

Inflation

Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

Price Level

Deflation

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Finance

Macroeconomics

Real interest rates

Interest rate parity

Market interest rates

Securities markets

Interest rates

Prices

Capital market

South Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

"November 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 18-20).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. DATA AND GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS""; ""III. METHODOLOGY""; ""IV. EMPIRICAL RESULTS""; ""V. CONCLUSION AND POLICY ISSUES""; ""References""

Sommario/riassunto

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 root test proposed by Pesaran to capture the improved macro-economic fundamentals since early 1990s. We also estimate the speed of convergence in the presence of a shock. The paper suggests that real interest rates in the emerging markets show some convergence in the long run but real interest parity does not hold. Our results also find that the speed of adjustment of real rates to a shock is estimated to differ significantly across the emerging markets. Measured by their half-life, some emerging markets in Asia, E.Europe and S.Africa, where real interest rates are generally low, take much longer to adjust than where real interest rates are generally high (Latin America, Turkey). From a policy perspective, encouraging foreign investors to take direct exposure at the short end of the local debt market could lower the real interest rates in some emerging markets.