Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/188917 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Queen's Economics Department Working Paper No. 1405
Publisher: 
Queen's University, Department of Economics, Kingston (Ontario)
Abstract: 
We consider the fractional cointegrated vector autoregressive (CVAR) model of Johansen and Nielsen (2012a) and make two distinct contributions. First, in their consistency proof, Johansen and Nielsen (2012a) imposed moment conditions on the errors that depend on the parameter space, such that when the parameter space is larger, stronger moment conditions are required. We show that these moment conditions can be relaxed, and for consistency we require just eight moments regardless of the parameter space. Second, Johansen and Nielsen (2012a) assumed that the cointegrating vectors are stationary, and we extend the analysis to include the possibility that the cointegrating vectors are nonstationary. Both contributions require new analysis and results for the asymptotic properties of the likelihood function of the fractional CVAR model, which we provide. Finally, our analysis follows recent research and applies a parameter space large enough that the usual (non-fractional) CVAR model constitutes an interior point and hence can be tested against the fractional model using a χ²-test.
Subjects: 
Cointegration
fractional integration
likelihood inference
vector autoregressive model
JEL: 
C32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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