Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71350 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP09/01
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
Deciding whether a time series that appears nonstationary is in fact fractionally integrated or subject to structural change is a diffcult task. However, various tests have recently been introduced for distinguishing long memory from level shifts and nonlinearity. In this paper, three testing approaches based on the properties of semiparametric estimators of the fractional differencing parameter, d, are described and applied to the (log) Ireland-United Kingdom and Ireland-Germany real exchange rates. The two exchange rates behave quite differently over time and the new tests give different results for each; but overall the results provide fairly strong support for the possibility of nonlinearity rather than long memory.
Subjects: 
Fractional integration
Long memory
Nonlinearity
Real exchange rates
Structural change
JEL: 
C22
F31
C51
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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