Van Dijk, Dick; Franses, Philip Hans; Lucas, Andre - In: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 17 (1999) 2, pp. 217-35
Regime-switching models, like the smooth transition autoregressive (STAR) model, are typically applied to time series of moderate length. Hence, the nonlinear features that these models intend to describe may be reflected in only a few observations. Conversely, neglected outliers in a linear...