Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/129994 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
School of Economics Discussion Papers No. 1511
Publisher: 
University of Kent, School of Economics, Canterbury
Abstract: 
Short memory models contaminated by level shifts have similar long-memory features as fractionally integrated processes. This makes it hard to verify whether the true data generating process is a pure fractionally integrated process when employing standard estimation methods based on the autocorrelation function or the periodogram. In this paper, we propose a robust testing procedure, based on an encompassing parametric specification that allows us to disentangle the level shifts from the fractionally integrated component. The estimation is carried out on the basis of a state-space methodology and it leads to a robust estimate of the fractional integration parameter also in presence of level shifts. Once the memory parameter is correctly estimated, we use the KPSS test for presence of level shift. The Monte Carlo simulations show how this approach produces unbiased estimates of the memory parameter when shifts in the mean, or other slowly varying trends, are present in the data. Therefore, this subsequent robust version of the KPSS test for the presence of level shifts has proper size and by far the highest power compared to other existing tests. Finally, we illustrate the usefulness of the proposed approach on financial data, such as daily bipower variation and turnover.
Subjects: 
Long Memory
Fractional Integration
Level Shifts
State-Space methods
KPSS test
JEL: 
C10
C11
C22
C80
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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