Kim, Dukpa; Perron, Pierre - Department of Economics, Boston University - 2006
We compare the asymptotic relative efficiency of the Exp, Mean, and Sup functionals of the Wald, LM and LR tests for structural change analyzed by Andrews (1993) and Andrews and Ploberger (1994). We derive the approximate Bahadur slopes of these tests using large deviations techniques. These...