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Asian Currency Crisis and the Generalized PPP: Evidence from the Far East
Author(s) -
Choudhry Taufiq
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
asian economic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.345
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-8381
pISSN - 1351-3958
DOI - 10.1111/1475-4762.00098-i1
Subject(s) - cointegration , currency crisis , economics , currency , us dollar , exchange rate , liberian dollar , east asia , monetary economics , financial crisis , international economics , macroeconomics , econometrics , geography , china , finance , archaeology
The present paper investigates the effects of the Asian currency crisis of 1997–1998 on the generalized PPP between several real exchange rates of the Far East countries. Monthly log of real exchange rates of the currencies of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and South Korea vis‐à‐vis the US dollar and the Japanese yen during 1990–2004 are applied in the investigation. Further tests are conducted between exchange rates vis‐à‐vis the Thai baht. Tests are conducted for periods before and after the crisis. Results from the Johansen method of multivariate cointegration show a substantial change in the relationship between these real exchange rates before and after the Asian currency crisis. This result is found using rates based on three currencies: US dollar, yen and baht.