first clarify the logic of applying cointegration methods to the RERI and propose an alternative way of testing the …

This paper examines the relationship between unemployment, real oil price and real interest rates in Canada. Instead of … following the classical approach based on I(0) stationarity or I(1) cointegrating relationships, we use fractional integration/cointegration … three variables are I(1). But we only find cointegration in the presence of autocorrelated disturbances, which means that …