中国宏观经济变量的结构突变单位根检验

文章首先比较系统地总结了有关结构突变单位根检验的理论、方法和模型。在考虑经济中结构突变的基础上对中国宏观经济总量的时间序列是具有单位根的非平稳还是趋势平稳进行了研究,为提高检验功效,应针对数据生成过程的特点联合多种检验方法进行检验。     

单发线性结构突变对DF单位根检验的影响分析—“Perron现象”的进一步研究

 “Perron现象”是指当真实的数据生成过程为带有结构突变的（趋势）平稳过程时，传统的DF单位根检验易将其误判为单位根过程。本文考虑了水平突变、截距突变、斜率突变以及截距与斜率双突变等四种突变情形下DF统计量的检验功效，推导了前两种突变情形下DF统计量的渐近分布，并对四种突变情形下DF统计量的有限样本性质进行了探讨。本研究是对“Perron现象”的进一步深入分析，也是对DF单位根检验的进一步补充和完善。     

基于傅里叶变换的含异质性结构突变的面板单位根检验

Lee等(2015)使用傅里叶变换近似结构突变建立了一个同时考虑结构突变和横截面相关的面板单位根检验,并证明具有优良的性质,该检验可以称为“第三代面板单位根检验”,然而其只能考虑同质的结构突变.本文建立了一个可以兼容异质性结构突变的傅里叶函数扩展型面板单位根检验,新检验也允许结构突变中含有包含多个频率的傅里叶函数.本文证明新建立的检验统计量不依赖于冗余参数且趋于正态分布.虽然正态分布的均值和方差是未知的,但可以使用蒙特卡洛模拟给出临界值.模拟表明,新的面板单位根检验具有良好的检验水平和检验功效.     

退势单位根检验的小样本性质

在经验研究中,尽管Dickey-Fuller提出的 统计量是应用最广泛的单位根检验,但是,它的检验功效偏低是众所周知的。为了改善Dickey-Fuller检验的功效,本文将时间序列的四种退势方法和 检验、 检验、MAX检验和 检验相结合,通过蒙特卡洛模拟试验研究了16种退势单位根检验的小样本性质。研究发现,退势单位根检验均不同程度地改善了 型检验的功效,特别是退势单位根检验 -KGLS、MAX-KGLS、 -RLS和MAX-RLS具有更理想的小样本性质。     

基于奇异值分解去势的非线性趋势序列单位根检验研究

 如何克服ADF与PP单位根检验法对非线性趋势平稳序列的伪检验,提高单位根检验的功效,是非平稳时间序列分析的重要问题。本文基于奇异值分解的思路,构造出检验非平稳时间序列单位根的SVD-RMA检验法,此方法将时间序列的趋势项与干扰项分离,然后用递归均值调整法对干扰项进行检验。仿真实验表明,SVD-RMA法对线性与非线性趋势、甚至结构突变过程的检验功效都非常好;对非线性趋势平稳的检验而言,SVD-RMA检验得到正确结论的可能性要远远好于ADF与PP检验。     

多种单位根检验方法的比较——以税收时间序列为例

文章利用常规单位根检验法和含结构突变点单位根检验法对改革开放以后的税收数据进行了平稳性检验.在ADF、PP、KPSS、NP检验方法下,我国税收是Ⅰ(1)过程;若假设税收数据只含有一个突变点,则不管突变点已知还是未知,税收都是结构突变的单位根过程;若假设税收数据含有两个突变点,则税收是结构突变的趋势平稳过程.因而文章得出结论:从长期来看,具有改革意义的税收政策会改变税收时间序列原有路径,从不同程度上推动税收总量的增加及税收增长速度的提高;但短期内,数据生成过程不变.     

内生结构突变下的突变点确定方法与单位根检验研究 ——基于残差平方和最小值确定突变点的比较分析

 对于内生突变情形下的单位根检验,突变点的确定方法会影响到单位根检验的功效,不同方法在确定突变点位置时的表现也不尽相同。本文首先评述了几种常用的突变点确定方法及相应的单位根检验,然后对基于各类回归式残差平方和最小值确定突变点的方法进行了比较分析,本文所设数据生成过程有别于已有研究,并首次考虑了依据可行广义最小二乘（FGLS）估计来确定突变点。在此基础上,还对比分析了几种不同突变点确定方法下的单位根检验功效和实际检验水平。结论显示,依据FGLS残差平方和最小值得到准确突变点的频率最高,且在AO模型下据此进行Perron检验具有较高的功效且不会发生较大的水平扭曲。     

同期相关面板数据结构突变单位根检验的统计性质 ——中国CPI指数平稳性的经验证据*

 内容提要：本文首先研究了同期相关面板数据外生同期截距突变同质面板单位根检验的统计性质。研究发现对于大面板数据该检验具有良好的实际检验水平，面板数据的大小、同期相关程度、结构突变位置和结构突变幅度等因素对该检验的检验功效具有显著影响，而且ρSUR检验比τSUR检验有更理想的检验效果。其次，利用该检验对中国省级CPI指数的平稳性进行了经验分析，发现中国省级CPI指数是趋势结构突变的平稳过程。     

非平稳时间序列外生性结构突变检验设计的一个实例

一、引言由于世界经济结构的剧烈动荡,如金融危机、政策变更等,致使经济时间序列中的结构突变时有发生,经济过程的结构突变会影响协整分析的结果,使协整方法论中许多有代表性的检验失去原有的功效,如单位根检验[单位根可能会发生漂移(特征根的取值不稳定),单位根检验统计量也可     

含均值结构变点时间序列的贝叶斯单位根检验

针对ADF和PP检验对含有均值结构变点时间序列的“伪检验”问题,文章基于贝叶斯理论,先运用贝叶斯因子模型选择的方法检测时序结构变点位置,再在结构变点已知的情况下运用置信区间和贝叶斯因子两种方法检验序列是否存在单位根,并用Monte Carlo模拟方法进行仿真,验证该方法的有效性。研究发现：是否考虑均值结构变点对时间序列的单位根检验有着重要的影响,不考虑结构突变而进行常规的单位根检验会产生误判;贝叶斯方法能够有效检测含有均值结构变点时间序列的变点位置,并能提高单位根检验功效。     

The sensitivity of robust unit root tests

The power properties of the rank-based Dickey–Fuller (DF) unit root test of Granger and Hallman [C. Granger and J. Hallman, Nonlinear transformations of integrated time series, J. Time Ser. Anal. 12 (1991), pp. 207–218] and the range unit root tests of Aparicio et al. [F. Aparicio, A. Escribano, and A. Siplos, Range unit root (RUR) tests: Robust against non-linearities, error distributions, structural breaks and outliers, J. Time Ser. Anal. 27 (2006), pp. 545–576] are considered when applied to near-integrated time series processes with differing initial conditions. The results obtained show the empirical powers of the tests to be generally robust to smaller deviations of the initial condition of the time series from its underlying deterministic component, particularly for more highly stationary processes. However, dramatic decreases in power are observed when either the mean or variance of the deviation of the initial condition is increased. The robustness of the rank- and range-based unit root tests and their higher power results relative to the seminal DF test have both been noted previously in the econometrics literature. These results are questioned by the findings of the present paper.     

The Disappointing Properties of GLS-Based Unit Root Tests in the Presence of Structural Breaks

Abstract

It is well known that prior application of GLS detrending, as advocated by Elliot et al. [Elliot, G., Rothenberg, T., Stock, J. (1996). Efficient tests for an autoregressive unit root. Econometrica 64:813–836], can produce a significant increase in power to reject the unit root null over that obtained from a conventional OLS-based Dickey and Fuller [Dickey, D., Fuller, W. (1979). Distribution of the estimators for autoregressive time series with a unit root. J. Am. Statist. Assoc. 74:427–431] testing equation. However, this paper employs Monte Carlo simulation to demonstrate that this increase in power is not necessarily obtained when breaks occur in either level or trend. It is found that neither OLS nor GLS-based tests are robust to level or trend breaks, their size and power properties both deteriorating as the break size increases.     

UNIT ROOT TESTING IN THE PRESENCE OF HEAVY‐TAILED GARCH ERRORS

We derive the asymptotic distributions of the Dickey–Fuller (DF) and augmented DF (ADF) tests for unit root processes with Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedastic (GARCH) errors under fairly mild conditions. We show that the asymptotic distributions of the DF tests and ADF t‐type test are the same as those obtained in the independent and identically distributed Gaussian cases, regardless of whether the fourth moment of the underlying GARCH process is finite or not. Our results go beyond earlier ones by showing that the fourth moment condition on the scaled conditional errors is totally unnecessary. Some Monte Carlo simulations are provided to illustrate the finite‐sample‐size properties of the tests.     

检验式设定错误对时间序列单位根检验小样本性质的影响

首先对单位根检验的两类常见的数据生成系统进行比较，然后利用蒙特卡洛实验研究了时间序列单位根检验式的设定问题。研究发现在利用DF检验和DF-GLS检验进行时间序列的单位根检验时，检验式设定错误直接影响着检验结果，尤其在推断时间序列是趋势平稳过程还是有时间趋势项的随机游走过程或有二阶时间趋势多项式的随机游走过程时，检验式的错误设定很容易将趋势平稳过程误判为非平稳过程。     

New innovational outlier unit root test with a break at an unknown time

The Perron test which is based on a Dickey–Fuller test regression is a commonly employed approach to test for a unit root in the presence of a structural break of unknown timing. In the case of an innovational outlier (IO), the Perron test tends to exhibit spurious rejections in finite samples when the break occurs under the null hypothesis. In the present paper, a new Perron-type IO unit root test is developed. It is shown in Monte Carlo experiments that the new test does not over-reject the null hypothesis. Even for the case of a level and slope break for trending data, the empirical size is near its nominal level. The test distribution equals the case of a known break date. Furthermore, the test is able to identify the true break date very accurately even for small breaks. As an application serves the Nelson–Plosser data set.     

On the Use of GLS Demeaning in Panel Unit Root Testing

One of the most well-known facts about unit root testing in time series is that the Dickey–Fuller (DF) test based on ordinary least squares (OLS) demeaned data suffers from low power, and that the use of generalized least squares (GLS) demeaning can lead to substantial power gains. Of course, this development has not gone unnoticed in the panel unit root literature. However, while the potential of using GLS demeaning is widely recognized, oddly enough, there are still no theoretical results available to facilitate a formal analysis of such demeaning in the panel data context. The present article can be seen as a reaction to this. The purpose is to evaluate the effect of GLS demeaning when used in conjuncture with the pooled OLS t-test for a unit root, resulting in a panel analog of the time series DF–GLS test. A key finding is that the success of GLS depend critically on the order in which the dependent variable is demeaned and first-differenced. If the variable is demeaned prior to taking first-differences, power is maximized by using GLS demeaning, whereas if the differencing is done first, then OLS demeaning is preferred. Furthermore, even if the former demeaning approach is used, such that GLS is preferred, the asymptotic distribution of the resulting test is independent of the tuning parameters that characterize the local alternative under which the demeaning performed. Hence, the demeaning can just as well be performed under the unit root null hypothesis. In this sense, GLS demeaning under the local alternative is redundant.     

Performance of seasonal unit root tests for monthly data

This paper uses Monte Carlo simulations to analyze the performance of several seasonal unit root tests for monthly time series. The tests are those of Dickey, Hasza and Fuller (DHF), Hylleberg, Engle, Granger and Yoo (HEGY), and Osborn, Chui, Smith and Birchenhall (OCSB). The unit root test of Dickey and Fuller (DF) is also considered. The results indicate that users have to be particularly cautious when applying the monthly version of the HEGY test. In general, the DHF and OCSB tests are preferable in terms of size and power, but these procedures may impose invalid restrictions. An empirical illustration is undertaken for UK two-digit industrial production indicators.     

Lagrange multiplier unit root test in the presence of a break in the innovation variance

We show that the Lagrange multiplier (LM) unit root test exhibits size distortions when a break in the innovation variance exists but is ignored. We develop a modified LM unit root test that is based on a generalized least-squares transformation of the original series. The asymptotic null distribution of the new modified LM unit root test is derived. Finite-sample simulation evidence shows that the modified LM unit root test maintains its size and has reasonable power against the trend stationary alternative.     

Partial unit root and surplus-lag Granger causality testing: A Monte Carlo simulation study

Previous literature has shown that the addition of an untested surplus-lag Granger causality test can provide highly robust to stationary, non stationary, long memory, and structural break processes in the forcing variables. This study extends this approach to the partial unit root framework by simulation. Results show good size and power. Therefore, the surplus-lag approach is also robust to partial unit root processes.     

THE BEHAVIOR OF HEGY TESTS FOR QUARTERLY TIME SERIES WITH SEASONAL MEAN SHIFTS

ABSTRACT

This paper studies the behavior of the HEGY statistics for quarterly data, for seasonal autoregressive unit roots, when the analyzed time series is deterministic seasonal stationary but exhibits a change in the seasonal pattern. We analyze also the HEGY test for the nonseasonal unit root. the data generation process being trend stationary too. Our results show that when the break magnitudes are finite, the HEGY test statistics are not asymptotically biased toward the nonrejection of the seasonal and nonseasonal unit root hypotheses. However, the finite sample power properties may be substantially affected, the behavior of the tests depending on the type of the break.