The recently examined durability-asymmetry hypothesis of Cook (1999) is re-evaluated using the diagnostic tests of time deformation proposed by Stock (1987, 1988). An application of these tests to disaggregated data on U.S. consumers’ expenditure provides further support for this hypothesis,...

Business cycle asymmetry is examined using annual observations on GDP for 22 economies over the period 1870 to 1994. The present paper extends recent research in a number of ways. First, a non-parametric testing procedure is adopted which is robust to outliers. Second, alternative methods of...

The relationship between the initial condition of time series data and the power of the Dickey-Fuller (1979) test and a number of modified Dickey-Fuller tests is examined. The results obtained extend the asymptotic analysis of Muller and Elliott (2003) by both focussing upon finite-sample power...

The debate concerning the mean reverting nature of the consumption-income ratio is revisited. The existing literature is extended by allowing for the as yet unconsidered possibility of asymmetric mean reversion in a collection of OECD economies. Using specifically derived finite-sample critical...

The debate concerning the mean reverting nature of the consumption-income ratio is revisited. The existing literature is extended by allowing for the as yet unconsidered possibility of asymmetric mean reversion in a collection of OECD economies. Using specifically derived finite-sample critical...

The finite-sample properties of threshold autoregressive cointegration tests are examined in the presence of structural changes in cointegrating relationships. It is shown that spurious asymmetric cointegration may be exhibited when there is a change in the degree of cointegration between two...

The properties of the 'change in persistence'' tests developed by Leybourne et al. (2003) are considered in the presence of structural change under the null. Interestingly, it is found that while breaks in drift result in undersizing, breaks in level lead to severe oversizing. The implications...

Using local-to-unity detrending, a modified momentum-threshold autoregressive test is derived to allow the unit root hypothesis to be tested against an alternative of asymmetric stationarity about a deterministic trend. Monte Carlo evidence is presented to show the increased power of the...

Using Monte Carlo methods, the behaviour of the momentum threshold autoregressive (MTAR) unit root test of Enders and Granger (1998) is examined in the presence of structural breaks under the null. It is found that for level breaks the MTAR test exhibits similar behaviour to that derived by...

This paper analyses the properties of Dickey-Fuller (1979) (DF) unit root tests in the presence of trend mis-specification. It is shown that while the performance of the DF coefficient test is as expected, the DF test in its t-ratio form exhibits unusual behaviour. In particular it is found that...