Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/204615 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Hannover Economic Papers (HEP) No. 656
Publisher: 
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Hannover
Abstract: 
In this paper, test procedures for no fractional cointegration against possible breaks in the persistence structure of a fractional cointegrating relationship are introduced. The tests proposed are based on the supremum of the Hassler and Breitung (2006) test statistic for no cointegration over possible breakpoints in the long-run equilibrium. We show that the new tests correctly standardized converge to the supremum of a chisquared distribution, and that this convergence is uniform. An in-depth Monte Carlo analysis provides results on the finite sample performance of our tests. We then use the new procedures to investigate whether there was a dissolution of fractional cointegrating relationships between benchmark government bonds of ten EMU countries (Spain, Italy, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Belgium, Austria, Finland, the Netherlands and France) and Germany with the beginning of the European debt crisis.
Subjects: 
Fractional cointegration
Persistence breaks
Hassler-Breitung test
Changing Long-run equilibrium
JEL: 
C12
C32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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