In a recent paper Cavaliere et al. (2012) develop bootstrap implementations of the (pseudo-) likelihood ratio (PLR) co-integration rank test and associated sequential rank determination procedure of Johansen (1996). The bootstrap samples are constructed using the restricted parameter estimates...

It is well known that the standard independent, identically distributed (iid) bootstrap of the mean is inconsistent in a location model with infinite variance (α-stable) innovations. This occurs because the bootstrap distribution of a normalised sum of infinite variance random variables tends...

A number of recent papers have focused on the problem of testing for a unit root in the case where the driving shocks may be unconditionally heteroskedastic. These papers have, however, taken the lag length in the unit root test regression to be a deterministic function of the sample size,...

In this article we propose wild bootstrap implementations of the local generalized least squares (GLS) de-trended M and ADF unit root tests of Stock (1999), Ng and Perron (2001), and Elliott et al. (1996), respectively. The bootstrap statistics are shown to replicate the first-order asymptotic...

In a recent article, Xiao and Lima (2007) show numerically that the stationarity test of Kwiatkowski et al. (1992) has power close to size when the volatility of the innovation process follows a linear trend. In this article, highlighting published results in Cavaliere and Taylor (2005), we show...

The paper provides a general framework for investigating the effects of permanent changes in the variance of the errors of an autoregressive process on unit root tests. Such a framework - which is based on a novel asymptotic theory for integrated and near integrated processes with...

In practice a degree of uncertainty will always exist concerning what specification to adopt for the deterministic trend function when running unit root tests. While most macroeconomic time series appear to display an underlying trend, it is often far from clear whether this component is best...