- Robust Unit Root Tests with an Innovation Variance Break
- Robust Unit Root Tests with an Innovation Variance Break
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- Oh. Yu-Jin
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- 한국통계학회 논문집
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- 2012년|19권 1호|pp.177-182 (6 pages)
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- 한국통계학회
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- 정기간행물|ENG| PDF텍스트
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A structural break in the level as well as in the innovation variance has often been exhibited in economic time series. In this paper we propose robust unit root tests based on a sign-type test statistic when a time series has a shift in its level and the corresponding volatility. The proposed tests are robust to a wide class of partially stationary processes with heavy-tailed errors, and have an exact binomial null distribution. Our tests are not affected by the size or location of the break. We set the structural break under the null and the alternative hypotheses to relieve a possible vagueness in interpreting test results in empirical work. The null hypothesis implies a unit root process with level shifts and the alternative connotes a stationary process with level shifts. The Monte Carlo simulation shows that our tests have stable size than the OLSE based tests.