Kon S. Lai
Department of Economics & Statistics California State University Los Angeles, CA 90032 Email: klai@calstatela.edu |
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Sample of Research Work
"The Chinese Currency: Past, Present, and Future," in Encyclopedia of International Economics and
Global Trade, Vol. 2: International Money and Finance, Ed., Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz,
World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore (May 2020), Chapter 7, 205-229.
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"Nonlinear Trend Stationarity in Global and Hemispheric Temperatures,"
Applied Economics Letters, 25 (January 2018), 15-18. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: M. Yoon]
"Structural Change and Long-Run Reversion in the Ex Ante Real Interest Rate,"
Applied Economics Letters, 22 (December 2015), 1281-1286. [ PDF ]
"Trade Openness, Market Competition, and Inflation: Some Sectoral Evidence from OECD Countries,"
International Journal of Finance and Economics, 17 (October 2012), 321-336. [ PDF ]
[coauthors: M. Binici and Y.W. Cheung]
"The Common-Trend and Transitory Dynamics in Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations,"
Applied Economics, 43 (January 2011), 1-18. [ PDF ]
[coauthors: M. Bergman and Y.W. Cheung]
"A Multiple-Horizon Search for the Role of Trade and Financial Factors in Bilateral Real Exchange Rate Volatility,"
Journal of Economics and Management, 5 (July 2009),187-218. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"Nominal Exchange Rate Flexibility and Real Exchange Rate Adjustment: New Evidence from Dual
Exchange Rates in Developing Countries," Japan and the World Economy, 20 (August 2008), 415-434. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"The Puzzling Unit Root in the Real Interest Rate and Its Inconsistency with Intertemporal Consumption Behavior,"
Journal of International Money and Finance, 27 (February 2008), 140-155. [ PDF ]
"A Reappraisal of the Border Effect on Relative Price Volatility,"
International Economic Journal, 20 (December 2006), 495-513. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"A Threshold Cointegration Analysis of Asymmetric Price Transmission From Crude Oil to Gasoline Prices,"
Economics Letters, 89 (November 2005), 233-239.
[coauthors: L.H. Chen and M. Finney]
"Dissecting the PPP Puzzle: The Unconventional Roles of Nominal Exchange Rate and Price Adjustments,"
Journal of International Economics, 64 (October 2004), 135-150. [ PDF ]
[coauthors: Y.W. Cheung and M. Bergman]
"On Structural Shifts and Stationarity of the Ex Ante Real Interest Rate,"
International Review of Economics and Finance, 13 (April 2004), 217-228. [ PDF ]
"Long Memory and Nonlinear Mean Reversion in Japanese Yen-based Real Exchange Rates,"
Journal of International Money and Finance, 20 (February 2001), 115-132. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"On the Purchasing Power Parity Puzzle,"
Journal of International Economics, 52 (December 2000), 321-330. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"On Cross-country Differences in the Persistence of Real Exchange Rates,"
Journal of International Economics, 50 (April 2000), 375-397. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"Macroeconomic Determinants of Long-term Stock Market Comovements Among Major EMS Countries,"
Applied Financial Economics, 9 (June 1999), 73-85. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"Parity Reversion in Real Exchange Rates During the Post-Bretton Woods Periods,"
Journal of International Money and Finance, 17 (August 1998), 597-614. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"Economic Growth and Stationarity of Real Exchange Rates: Evidence from Some Fast Growing Asian Countries,"
Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 6 (May 1998), 61-76. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"Power of the Augmented Dickey-Fuller Test with Information-Based Lag Selection"
Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 60 (January 1998), 57-65.
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"Bandwidth Selection, Prewhitening, and the Power of the Phillips-Perron Test,"
Econometric Theory, 13 (October 1997), 679-691. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"Long-term Persistence in the Real Interest Rate: Some Evidence of a Fractional Unit Root?"
International Journal of Finance and Economics, 2 (July 1997), 225-235. [ PDF ]
"Is the Real Interest Rate Unstable? Some New Evidence,"
Applied Economics, 29 (March 1997), 359-364. [ PDF ]
"Estimating Finite Sample Critical Values for Unit Root Tests Using Pure Random Walk Processes,"
Journal of Time Series Analysis, 16 (September 1995), 493-498.
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"Lag Order and Critical Values of a Modified Dickey-Fuller Test,"
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 57 (August 1995), 411-419. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"A Search for Long Memory in International Stock Returns,"
Journal of International Money and Finance, 14 (August 1995), 597-615. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"Lag Order and Critical Values of the Augmented Dickey-Fuller Test,"
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 13 (July 1995), 277-280. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"Purchasing Power Parity under the European Monetary System,"
Journal of International Money and Finance, 14 (April 1995), 179-189. [ PDF ]
[coauthors: Y.W. Cheung, H.G. Fung, and W.C. Lo]
"Mean Reversion in Real Exchange Rates,"
Economics Letters, 46 (November 1994), 251-256. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"Government Spending and Economic Growth: The G7 Experience,"
Applied Economics, 26 (May 1994), 535-542. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: E. Hsieh]
"Fracture Structure in Currency Futures Price Dynamics,"
Journal of Futures Markets, 14 (April 1994), 169-181. [ PDF ]
[coauthors: H. Fang and M. Lai]
"Dynamic Linkages Between the New York and Tokyo Stock Markets: A Vector Error Correction Analysis,"
Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 3 (Fall 1993), 73-96.
[coauthors: M. Lai and H. Fang]
"Finite-Sample Sizes of Johansen's Likelihood Ratio Tests for Cointegration,"
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 55 (August 1993), 313-328. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"Do Gold Market Returns Have Long Memory?"
Financial Review, 28 (May 1993), 181-202. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"Are There Long Cycles in Foreign Stock Returns?"
Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 3 (Winter 1993), 33-47.
[coauthors: Y.W. Cheung and M. Lai]
"Long-Run Purchasing Power Parity During the Recent Float,"
Journal of International Economics, 33 (February 1993), 181-195. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"A Fractional Cointegration Analysis of Purchasing Power Parity,"
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 11 (January 1993), 103-112. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"Random Walk or Bandwagon: Some Evidence from Foreign Exchanges in the 1980s,"
Applied Economics, 24 (July 1992), 639-700. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: P. Pauly]
"International Evidence on Output Persistence from Postwar Data,"
Economics Letters, 24 (April 1992), 435-441. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: Y.W. Cheung]
"Production Lags and Price Behavior,"
Economica, 59 (February 1992), 53-62. [ PDF ]
[coauthor: P. Pauly]
"A Cointegration Test for Market Efficiency,"
Journal of Futures Markets, 11 (October, 1991), 567-575.
[coauthor: M. Lai]
"Aggregation and Testing of the Production Smoothing Hypothesis,"
International Economic Review, 32 (May 1991), 391-403. [ PDF ]
"Cointegration Between Exchange Rates and Relative Prices: Another View,"
European Economic Review, 34 (November 1990), 1303-1322.
[coauthors: G. Canarella and S.K. Pollard]
"Price Smoothing Under Capacity Constraints,"
Southern Economic Journal, 57 (July 1990), 50-159. [ PDF ]
"An Evaluation of Survey Exchange Rate Forecasts,"
Economics Letters, 32 (January 1990), 61-65.