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Panel cointegration and the neutrality of money

Westerlund, Joakim LU and Costantini, Mauro (2009) 2nd Italian Congress of Econometrics and Empirical Economics 36(1). p.1-26
Abstract
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... (More)
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. (Less)
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Monetary neutrality, Panel cointegration testing
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Empirical Economics
volume
36
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1
pages
1 - 26
publisher
Physica Verlag
conference name
2nd Italian Congress of Econometrics and Empirical Economics
conference dates
2007-01-25 - 2007-01-26
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0377-7332
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10.1007/s00181-007-0181-y
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English
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  author       = {{Westerlund, Joakim and Costantini, Mauro}},
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  keywords     = {{Monetary neutrality; Panel cointegration testing}},
  language     = {{eng}},
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  publisher    = {{Physica Verlag}},
  title        = {{Panel cointegration and the neutrality of money}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00181-007-0181-y}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/s00181-007-0181-y}},
  volume       = {{36}},
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