Juan Carlos Cuestas

The role of commodity terms of trade in determining the real exchange rates of mediterranean countries (2007)

Cuestas, Juan Carlos, Camarero Olivas, Mariam, Ordoñez, Javier

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether there exists a long run relationship between the real exchange rate and the commodity terms of trade in the so-called ¿Mediterranean¿ or MENA...

Purchasing power parity in central and eastern european countries: an analysis of unit roots and nonlinearities (2007)

Cuestas, Juan Carlos

The aim of this paper is to analyse the empirical fulfilment of PPP in a number of Central and Eastern European countries. For this purpose we apply two different unit root tests in order to control...

Nonlinear trend stationarity of real exchange rates: the case of the mediterranean countries (2006)

Camarero Olivas, Mariam, Cuestas, Juan Carlos, Ordoñez, Javier

The aim of this article is to provide additional evidence on the fulfilment of the Purchasing Power Parity hypothesis in the so-called Mediterranean countries. In order to test for the empirical...

THE ROLE OF COMMODITY TERMS OF TRADE IN DETERMINING THE REAL EXCHANGE RATES OF MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES

Juan Carlos Cuestas, Javier Ordoñez, Mariam Camarero

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether there exists a long run relationship between the real exchange rate and the commodity terms of trade in the so-called ¿Mediterranean¿ or MENA...

PURCHASING POWER PARITY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: AN ANALYSIS OF UNIT ROOTS AND NONLINEARITIES

Juan Carlos Cuestas

The aim of this paper is to analyse the empirical fulfilment of PPP in a number of Central and Eastern European countries. For this purpose we apply two different unit root tests in order to control...

NONLINEAR TREND STATIONARITY OF REAL EXCHANGE RATES: THE CASE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES

Juan Carlos Cuestas, Javier Ordoñez, Mariam Camarero

The aim of this article is to provide additional evidence on the fulfilment of the Purchasing Power Parity hypothesis in the so-called Mediterranean countries. In order to test for the empirical...

Purchasing Power Parity versus the EU in the Mediterranean countries

Mariam Camarero, Juan Carlos Cuestas, Javier Ordóñez

This study applies a group of unit root and stationarity tests to study the hypothesis of Purchasing Power Parity in ten Mediterranean countries. The real effective exchange rate with the European...

Unemployment and entrepreneurship: a cyclical relationship?

Joao Ricardo Faria, Juan Carlos Cuestas, Luis Gil-Alana

This paper presents a cyclical model for unemployment and entrepreneurship. The estimated periodicity of the cycles for the US, the UK, Spain and Ireland is between 5 and 10 years, and the orders of...

Testing for PPP in Australia: Evidence from unit root test against nonlinear trend stationarity alternatives

Juan Carlos Cuestas, Paulo José Regis

This paper tests for the empirical fulfilment of PPP in Australia (1977-2004). Previous research focuses on the presence of structural breaks and fails to find any support for PPP (Darne and Hoarau,...

Testing for stationarity of inflation in Central and Eastern European Countries

Juan Carlos Cuestas, Barry Harrison

In this paper we provide an insight into the inflation dynamics in a panel of Central and Eastern European countries. These countries are selected because of their increasing importance in the EU and...

Nonlinearities and the order of integration of oil prices

Juan Carlos Cuestas, Paulo Jose Regis

Unit root tests are the starting point of most empirical time series research. This paper analyses the order of integration of oil prices taking into account the possibilities of nonlinearities in...

Entrepreneurship and unemployment: a nonlinear bidirectional causality

Joao Ricardo Faria, Juan Carlos Cuestas, Estefania Mourelle

This paper tests the view that the relation between unemployment and entrepreneurship is dynamic and possibly nonlinear. It performs Granger-causality tests and STAR-EXT estimation to assess the...

Nonlinearities in real exchange rate determination: do African exchange rates follow a radom walk?

Juan Carlos Cuestas, Estefania Mourelle

In this paper we aim at modelling the long run behaviour of the Real Effective Exchange Rates (REER) for a pool of African countries. Not much attention has been paid to this group of countries, in...

Is real GDP per capita a stationary process? Smooth transitions, nonlinear trends and unit root testing

Juan Carlos Cuestas, Dean Garratt

The aim of this paper is to provide additional evidence about the order of integration of constant price GDP per capita in a selection of countries. It does so by taking into account the possibility...

Testing for PPP in Australia: evidence from unit root tests against nonlinear trend stationarity alternatives

Juan Carlos Cuestas, Paulo Jose Regis

The aim of this paper is to analyse the empirical fulfilment of the PPP in Australia (1977-2004). Previous research focuses on the presence of structural breaks and fails to find any support to the...

Testing for convergence among Mercosur countries

Juan Carlos Cuestas, Javier Ordóñez

The aim of this paper is to analyse the existence of price convergence in Mercosur. Two variables are considered, Consumer Price Indices to assess convergence in the goods and services markets and...

Nonlinear trend stationarity of real exchange rates: the case of the Mediterranean countries

Mariam Camarero, Juan Carlos Cuestas, Javier Ordonez

The aim of this article is to provide additional evidence on the fulfilment of the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) hypothesis in the so-called Mediterranean countries. In order to test for the...

Purchasing power parity in Central and Eastern European countries: an analysis of unit roots and nonlinearities

Juan Carlos Cuestas

The aim of this article is to analyse the empirical fulfilment of purchasing power parity (PPP) in a number of Central and Eastern European countries. For this purpose we apply two different unit...

Further evidence on the Real Interest Rate Parity hypothesis in Central and Eastern European Countries: unit roots and nonlinearities

Juan Carlos Cuestas, Barry Harrison

This paper analyses the empirical fulfilment of the Real Interest Rate Parity (RIRP) theory for a pool of Central and Eastern European Countries. To do so, we apply the recently developed Ng and...

Inflation persistence and asymmetries: evidence for African countries

Juan Carlos Cuestas, Estefanía Mourelle

In this paper we aim at testing the inflation persistence hypothesis as well as modelling (using logistic smooth transition autoregressive, LSTAR, models) the long run behaviour of inflation rates in...

Further evidence on the PPP analysis of the Australian dollar: non-linearities, fractional integration and structural changes

Juan Carlos Cuestas

The aim of this paper is to analyse the empirical fulfilment of the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) theory for the Australian dollar. In order to do so we have applied recently developed unit root...

Unemployment and common smooth transition trends in Central and Eastern European Countries

Juan Carlos Cuestas, Javier Ordóñez

In the present paper we analyse the existence of common nonlinear trends in several of Central and Eastern European Countries in order to gain some insight about the degree of labour market...

Unemployment hysteresis, structural changes, non-linearities and fractional integration in Central and Eastern Europe

Juan Carlos Cuestas

In this paper we aim to analyse the dynamics of unemployment in a group of Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs). The CEECs are of special importance for the future of the European Union,...