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In a recent study by Chowdhry et al. (American Economic Review 95: 255–276, 2005), they suggest that the empirical failure of relative purchasing power parity (PPP) may be because the official inflation data are too sticky. Thus, after extracting the unobservable pure price inflation from equity markets, they find strong evidence supporting relative PPP in the short run. As a replication study, this paper first replicates their original findings successfully. We further investigate whether long-run relative PPP holds using the pure price inflation data constructed by Chowdhry et al. (2005). After constructing pure real exchange rate series using their pure price inflation data, we implement both unit root and cointegration tests on the pure real exchange rates. According to the test results, the evidence suggests that relative PPP does not hold in the long run. Thus, it may be too early to suggest a resolution of the PPP puzzle.
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Chen, SS. Does extracting inflation from stock returns solve the purchasing power parity puzzle?. Empir Econ 42, 1097–1105 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-010-0435-y
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