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Time Series Regression With a Unit Root and Infinite-Variance Errors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

P.C.B. Phillips
P.C.B. Phillips
Affiliation:
Cowles Foundation for Research in EconomicsYale University
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Abstract

In [4] Chan and Tran give the limit theory for the least-squares coefficient in a random walk with i.i.d. (identically and independently distributed) errors that are in the domain of attraction of a stable law. This paper discusses their results and provides generalizations to the case of I(1) processes with weakly dependent errors whose distributions are in the domain of attraction of a stable law. General unit root tests are also studied. It is shown that the semiparametric corrections suggested by the author in other work [22] for the finite-variance case continue to work when the errors have infinite variance. Surprisingly, no modifications to the formulas given in [22] are required. The limit laws are expressed in terms of ratios of quadratic functional of a stable process rather than Brownian motion. The correction terms that eliminate nuisance parameter dependencies are random in the limit and involve multiple stochastic integrals that may be written in terms of the quadratic variation of the limiting stable process. Some extensions of these results to models with drifts and time trends are also indicated.

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Econometric Theory , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 1990 , pp. 44 - 62
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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