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ANOTHER NUMERICAL METHOD OF FINDING CRITICAL VALUES FOR THE ANDREWS STABILITY TEST

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2011

Stanislav Anatolyev  and
Grigory Kosenok
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Abstract

We propose a method, alternative to that of Estrella (2003, Econometric Theory 19, 1128–1143), of obtaining exact asymptotic p-values and critical values for the popular Andrews (1993, Econometrica 61, 821–856) test for structural stability. The method is based on inverting an integral equation that determines the intensity of crossing a boundary by the asymptotic process underlying the test statistic. Further integration of the crossing intensity yields a p-value. The proposed method can potentially be applied to other stability tests that employ the supremum functional.

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Research Article
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Econometric Theory , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , February 2012 , pp. 239 - 246
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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Footnotes

We are grateful to two anonymous referees for very helpful comments and suggestions. We also thank Paolo Paruolo and Geert Dhaene for useful conversations.

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