A bivariate fractionally cointegrated relationship in the context of cyclical structures

This paper deals with the analysis of cointegration in a bivariate system. However, we depart from the classic concept of cointegration in two aspects. First, we permit fractional degrees of integration in both the parent series and in their linear combination. Second, instead of assuming that the pole or singularity in the spectrum takes places at the zero frequency, we consider the case where the singularity occurs at a frequency λ in the interval (0, π]. We use a procedure that follows the same lines as the two-step testing strategy of R.F. Engle, and C.W.J. Granger, [Cointegration and error correction model. Representation, estimation and testing, Econometrica 55 (1987), pp. 251–276]. Thus, we test first the order of integration in the individual series, which are specified in terms of the Gegenbauer polynomials. Then, if the two series share the same degree of integration at a given frequency, we test the null hypothesis of no cointegration against the alternative of fractional cyclical cointegration, by testing the order of integration on the estimated residuals from the cointegrating regression. Finite sample critical values are obtained, and the power properties of the test are examined. An empirical application is also carried out at the end of the article.     

Cointegration analysis with state space models

This paper presents and exemplifies results developed for cointegration analysis with state space models by Bauer and Wagner in a series of papers. Unit root processes, cointegration, and polynomial cointegration are defined. Based upon these definitions, the major part of the paper discusses how state space models, which are equivalent to VARMA models, can be fruitfully employed for cointegration analysis. By detailing the cases most relevant for empirical applications, the I(1), multiple frequency I(1), and I(2) cases, a canonical representation is developed and thereafter some available statistical results are briefly discussed.     

Comment on testing for spurious and cointegrated regressions: a wavelet approach

In a recent paper, Leong and Huang [6] proposed a wavelet-correlation-based approach to test for cointegration between two time series. However, correlation and cointegration are two different concepts even when wavelet analysis is used. It is known that statistics based on non-stationary integrated variables have non-standard asymptotic distributions. However, wavelet analysis offsets the integrating order of non-stationary series so that traditional asymptotics on stationary variables suffices to ascertain the statistical properties of wavelet-based statistics. Based on this, this note shows that wavelet correlations cannot be used as a test of cointegration.     

Testing for the Cointegrating Rank of a VAR Process With Structural Shifts

Tests for the cointegrating rank of a vector autoregressive process are considered that allow for possible exogenous shifts in the mean of the data-generation process. The break points are assumed to be known a priori. It is proposed to estimate and remove the deterministic terms such as mean, linear-trend term, and a shift in a first step. Then systems cointegration tests are applied to the adjusted series. The resulting tests are shown to have known limiting null distributions that are free of nuisance parameters and do not depend on the break point. The tests are applied for analyzing the number of cointegrating relations in two German money-demand systems.     

近单整时间序列Scheffe预测模型的内生性及其修正

对于包含近单整时间序列的预测模型,在进行Scheffe检验时由于内生性问题的影响,导致参数统计量的检验水平过于保守,由此也相应降低了检验功效。通过加入解释变量的超前项与滞后项差分项的动态方法进行修正,并对修正前后的统计量有限样本性质进行仿真比较,结果显示这一修正方法可以有效降低内生性问题对Scheffe检验结果的影响。在小样本条件下,经过修正的Scheffe检验不仅提高了统计量的检验功效,同时明显减少了检验水平的扭曲现象。     

A SCORE TEST FOR SEASONAL FRACTIONAL INTEGRATION AND COINTEGRATION

This paper develops a time domain score statistic for testing fractional integration at zero and seasonal frequencies in quarterly time series models. Further, it introduces the notion of fractional cointegration at different frequencies between two seasonally integrated, I(1) series. In testing problems involving seasonal fractional cointegration, it is argued that the alternative hypothesis is one-sided for which the usual score test may not be appropriate. Therefore, based on ideas in Silvapulle and Silvapulle (1995), a one-sided score statistic is constructed. A simulation study finds that the score statistic generally has desirable size and power properties in moderately sized samples. The score test is applied to the quarterly Australian consumption function. The income and consumption series are found to be I(1) at zero and seasonal frequencies and these two series are not cointegrated at any frequency.     

Bayes Estimates of Markov Trends in Possibly Cointegrated Series

Stylized facts show that average growth rates of U.S. per capita consumption and income differ in recession and expansion periods. Because a linear combination of such series does not have to be a constant mean process, standard cointegration analysis between the variables to examine the permanent income hypothesis may not be valid. To model the changing growth rates in both series, we introduce a multivariate Markov trend model that accounts for different growth rates in consumption and income during expansions and recessions and across variables within both regimes. The deviations from the multivariate Markov trend are modeled by a vector autoregression (VAR) model. Bayes estimates of this model are obtained using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. The empirical results suggest the existence of a cointegration relation between U.S. per capita disposable income and consumption, after correction for a multivariate Markov trend. This result is also obtained when per capita investment is added to the VAR.     

No-cointegration test based on fractional differencing: Some Monte Carlo results

This paper examines the use of the t-statistic in the Geweke–Porter-Hudak regression for the estimation of the fractional differencing parameter as a test for cointegration. The critical values of the test statistic are estimated using Monte Carlo methods. The results confirm that the test will over-reject the null hypothesis of no cointegration if the standard-normal critical values are used. The estimated critical values are generally robust to the nuisance parameters in the autoregressive or moving average specification of the error process of the component time series. Exceptions occur when the dependent variable in the cointegration regression follows an autoregressive process with a large positive parameter or a moving average process with a large negative parameter.     

A Reexamination of Friedman's Consumption Puzzle

The different average and marginal consumption propensities estimated from time series data constitute a classic puzzle of the theory of consumption. This article argues that if consumption and income possess a common stochastic trend (and thus are cointegrated), both the average propensity to consume (APC) and the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) will be consistent but biased in small samples. Upon correcting for this small sample bias, the puzzling discrepancies between the APC and the MPC estimated using annual data for the United States from 1897 to 1949 become substantially smaller. This supports an alternative resolution of the puzzle based on the theory of cointegration.     

A vector of quarters representation for bivariate time series

In this paper it is shown that several models for a bivariate nonstationary quarterly time series are nested in a vector autoregression with cointegration restrictions for the eight annual series of quarterly observations. Or, the Granger Representation Theorem is extended to incorporate, e.g., seasonal and periodic cointegration.     

A vector of quarters representation for bivariate time series

In this paper it is shown that several models for a bivariate nonstationary quarterly time series are nested in a vector autoregression with cointegration restrictions for the eight annual series of quarterly observations. Or, the Granger Representation Theorem is extended to incorporate, e.g., seasonal and periodic cointegration.     

Johansen和Juselius协整检验应注意的几个问题

Johansen和Juselius的似然比检验多变量协整关系的方法在实证分析中得到了广泛应用。在总结该方法的基础上,针对国内使用该方法存在比较混乱的状况指出了一些注意事项,譬如根据经济时间序列的数据生成过程选择确定性成分,检验临界值的使用以及协整关系个数的非唯一性等问题,还简要论述了阶数的确定、外生性与因果关系检验等问题,最后指出了该检验的一些不足。通过对上述问题的讨论,试图为实证研究人员在使用该方法时提供简单有效的指导性建议。     

Forecasting Vector ARMA Processes With Systematically Missing Observations

The following two predictors are compared for time series with systematically missing observations: (a) A time series model is fitted to the full series X_t , and forecasts are based on this model, (b) A time series model is fitted to the series with systematically missing observations Y _τ, and forecasts are based on the resulting model. If the data generation processes are known vector autoregressive moving average (ARMA) processes, the first predictor is at least as efficient as the second one in a mean squared error sense. Conditions are given for the two predictors to be identical. If only the ARMA orders of the generation processes are known and the coefficients are estimated, or if the process orders and coefficients are estimated, the first predictor is again, in general, superior. There are, however, exceptions in which the second predictor, using seemingly less information, may be better. These results are discussed, using both asymptotic theory and small sample simulations. Some economic time series are used as illustrative examples.     

A new nonlinear asymmetric cointegration approach using error correction models

In this article, two new powerful tests for cointegration are proposed. The general idea is based on an intuitively appealing extension of the traditional, rather restrictive cointegration concept. In this article, we allow for a nonlinear, but most importantly a different, asymmetric convergence process to account for negative and positive changes in our cointegration approach. Using Monte Carlo simulations we verify, that the estimated size of the first test depends on the unknown value of a signal-to-noise ratio q. However, our second test—which is based on the original ideas of Kanioura and Turner—is more successful and robust in the sense that it works in all of the different evaluated situations. Furthermore it is shown to be more powerful than the traditional residual based Enders and Siklos method. The new optimal test is also applied in an empirical example in order to test for potential nonlinear asymmetric price transmission effects on the Swedish power market. We find that there is a higher propensity for power retailers to rapidly and systematically increase their retail electricity prices subsequent to increases in Nordpool's wholesale prices, than there is for them to reduce their prices subsequent to a drop in wholesale spot prices.     

Predicting daily highs and lows of exchange rates: a cointegration analysis

This article presents empirical evidence that links the daily highs and lows of exchange rates of the US dollar against two other major currencies over a 15 year period. We find that the log high and log low of an exchange rate are cointegrated, and the error correction term is well-approximated by the range, which is defined as the difference between the log high and log low. We further assess the empirical relevance of jointly analyzing the highs, lows and the ranges by comparing the range forecasts generated from the cointegration framework with those from random walk and autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) specifications. The ability of range forecasts as predictors of implied volatility for a European style currency option is also evaluated. Our results show that aside from a limited set of exceptions, the cointegration framework generally outperforms the random walk and ARIMA models in an out-of-sample forecast contest.     

Unit root econometrics and economic nonlinearities

This paper concentrates on some shortcomings of contemporary unit root econometric methodology (testing for cointegration, common roots and stationarity) where the dynamics of an economy are described by a nonlinear process. It is shown that, in such circumstances, traditionally applied unit root econometrics may not lead to interpretable or statistically significant results. Two cases of such nonlinearities are discussed: (i) a stochastically nonlinear data generating process and (ii) a time-varying parameters cointegrating relation, typical of an economic reform process. It is shown that case (i) consists of a wide family of economic processes and in most such cases the results of standard unit root tests are not directly interpretable. Case (ii) does not result in a (conventionally understood) error-correction representation of a cointegrated process. Some Monte Carlo experiments evaluate the validity of cointegration tests in situations where there is a change in the cointegration parameter and from cointegration regime to noncointegration and vice versa. A simple method of estimation through simulation is proposed and its finite-sample properties examined.     

基于LSTAR模型的非线性协整检验

大量的经济理论和实践都表明,宏观经济时间序列经常会出现非平稳和非线性特征,因而在统计分析时,需要进行非线性协整检验。基于逻辑平滑转换自回归(LSTAR)模型将传统的线性协整表述方法拓展为非线性形式,构造实用的检验程序及合适的统计量,利用软件R进行蒙特卡洛模拟给出非线性协整检验统计量的临界值,并通过实际数据分析购买力平价动态系统的非线性协整关系,说明方法的有效性。     

Predictive information and distance between past and future of a time series

A characterization for the nullity of the cosine angle between two subspaces of a Hilbert space is established. Given a time series x, we use this characterization in order to investigate the relationship between the notions of predictor space and distance between the information contained in the past and in the future of x. In particular, we prove that the predictor space of x coincides with the zero vector space {0} if and only if this distance achieves its maximum value.     

动态广义最小二乘法在面板协整中的应用研究

在进行非平稳面板数据的协整分析时,使用动态最小二乘法（DOLS）可以有效消除内生性问题,从而得到具有渐进正态分布的统计量。但在小样本条件下,由于可使用解释变量差分项的阶数有限,导致模型中均衡误差项的序列相关,使得DOLS统计量出现严重的检验水平畸变。为此,本文将单一时间序列的动态广义最小二乘法（DGLS）应用于非平稳的同质面板数据模型。在序贯极限分布的条件下,DGLS统计量仍具有正态的条件极限分布。而仿真实验表明,对于非平稳的同质面板数据模型,即使在均衡误差项存在高序列相关的条件下,DGLS统计量仍具有较好的小样本性质。     

中国费雪效应的门限协整检验

由于中国费雪效应的研究结果具有很大的不一致性,结合中国1991年1月至2008年12月之间的数据,应用可以刻画变量间非线性均衡关系的门限协整理论检验费雪效应,研究结果显示：第一,中国的名义利率与通货膨胀率均为单位根过程,二者之间不存在线性协整关系,而是存在两个门限值的门限协整关系;第二,当通货膨胀率小于-0．8％时,中国费雪效应不存在,而当通货膨胀率在-0．8％～12．03％2;间时,中国存在值为0．42的部分费雪效应;当通货膨胀率大于12．03％时,中国存在值为0．05的部分费雪效应。