Econometrica

Journal Of The Econometric Society

An International Society for the Advancement of Economic
Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics

Edited by: Guido W. Imbens • Print ISSN: 0012-9682 • Online ISSN: 1468-0262

Econometrica: Sep, 2012, Volume 80, Issue 5

Nearly Efficient Likelihood Ratio Tests of the Unit Root Hypothesis

https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA10306
p. 2321-2332

Michael Jansson, Morten Ørregaard Nielsen

Seemingly absent from the arsenal of currently available “nearly efficient” testing procedures for the unit root hypothesis, that is, tests whose asymptotic local power functions are virtually indistinguishable from the Gaussian power envelope, is a test admitting a (quasi‐)likelihood ratio interpretation. We study the large sample properties of a quasi‐likelihood ratio unit root test based on a Gaussian likelihood and show that this test is nearly efficient.


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Supplement to "Nearly Efficient Likelihood Ratio Tests of the Unit Root Hypothesis"

This appendix contains Monte Carlo simulations to assess the finite sample properties of the likelihood ratio test in the manuscript.

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