Boswijk, H Peter and Cavaliere, Giuseppe and Rahbek, Anders and Taylor, AM Robert (2016) Inference on co-integration parameters in heteroskedastic vector autoregressions. Journal of Econometrics, 192 (1). pp. 64-85. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2015.07.005
Boswijk, H Peter and Cavaliere, Giuseppe and Rahbek, Anders and Taylor, AM Robert (2016) Inference on co-integration parameters in heteroskedastic vector autoregressions. Journal of Econometrics, 192 (1). pp. 64-85. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2015.07.005
Boswijk, H Peter and Cavaliere, Giuseppe and Rahbek, Anders and Taylor, AM Robert (2016) Inference on co-integration parameters in heteroskedastic vector autoregressions. Journal of Econometrics, 192 (1). pp. 64-85. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2015.07.005
Abstract
We consider estimation and hypothesis testing on the coefficients of the co-integrating relations and the adjustment coefficients in vector autoregressions driven by shocks which display both conditional and unconditional heteroskedasticity of a quite general and unknown form. We show that the conventional results in Johansen (1996) for the maximum likelihood estimators and associated likelihood ratio tests derived under homoskedasticity do not in general hold under heteroskedasticity. As a result, standard confidence intervals and hypothesis tests on these coefficients are potentially unreliable. Solutions based on Wald tests (using a “sandwich” estimator of the variance matrix) and on the use of the wild bootstrap are discussed. These do not require the practitioner to specify a parametric model for volatility. We establish the conditions under which these methods are asymptotically valid. A Monte Carlo simulation study demonstrates that significant improvements in finite sample size can be obtained by the bootstrap over the corresponding asymptotic tests in both heteroskedastic and homoskedastic environments. An application to the term structure of interest rates in the US illustrates the difference between standard and bootstrap inferences regarding hypotheses on the co-integrating vectors and adjustment coefficients.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Co-integration; Adjustment coefficients; (un)Conditional heteroskedasticity; Heteroskedasticity-robust inference; Wild bootstrap |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 05 Aug 2015 09:59 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 16:13 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/14472 |
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