Near Observational Equivalence and Theoretical size Problems with Unit Root Tests
- 1 October 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Econometric Theory
- Vol. 12 (4) , 724-731
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266466600007003
Abstract
Said and Dickey (1984,Biometrika71, 599–608) and Phillips and Perron (1988,Biometrika75, 335–346) have derived unit root tests that have asymptotic distributions free of nuisance parameters under very general maintained models. Under models as general as those assumed by these authors, the size of the unit root test procedures will converge to one, not the size under the asymptotic distribution. Solving this problem requires restricting attention to a model that is small, in a topological sense, relative to the original. Sufficient conditions for solving the asymptotic size problem yield some suggestions for improving finite-sample size performance of standard tests.Keywords
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