Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/32101 
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Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeitrag No. 152
Publisher: 
Universität Duisburg-Essen, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Essen
Abstract: 
The present paper considers Dickey-Fuller-type unit root tests which account for a structural break occurring at an unknown point in time. The break is modelled by an innovational outlier approach. Provided that the break date is estimated correctly, the exact invariance to a mean and a slope shift holds for these tests under the null hypothesis. An erroneous estimation of the break date leads to considerable spurious rejections of the null hypothesis in small samples. In this paper, test procedures are developed using a components representation of the data generating process. In contrast to the conventionally used approaches, these tests enable the identification of the true break date and ensure the invariance property of the corresponding test statistics. Monte Carlo simulations of size and power testify the favorable properties of the developed tests.
Subjects: 
Unit root tests
structural break
endogenous break date estimation
innovational outlier models
spurious rejections
component representation
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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