Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/61769 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 373 Discussion Paper No. 1999,72
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes, Berlin
Abstract: 
Unit root tests for time series with level shifts of general form are considered when the timing of the shift is unknown. It is proposed to estimate the nuisance parameters of the data generation process including the shift date in a first step and apply standard unit root tests to the residuals. The estimation of the nuisance parameters is done in such a way that the unit root tests on the residuals have limiting distributions for which critical values are tabulated elsewhere in the literature. Empirical examples are discussed to illustrate the procedure.
Subjects: 
univariate time series
unit root
structural shift
autoregression
JEL: 
C22
C12
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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