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ON THE BEHAVIOR OF FIXED-b TREND BREAK TESTS UNDER FRACTIONAL INTEGRATION

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  • Iacone, Fabrizio
  • Leybourne, Stephen J.
  • Taylor, A.M. Robert

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Testing for the presence of a broken linear trend when the nature of the persistence in the data is unknown is not a trivial problem, because the test needs to be both asymptotically correctly sized and consistent, regardless of the order of integration of the data. In a recent paper, Sayginsoy and Vogelsang (2011, Econometric Theory 27, 992–1025) (SV) show that tests based on fixed-b asymptotics provide a useful solution to this problem in the case where the shocks may be either weakly dependent or display strong dependence within the near-unit-root class. In this paper we analyze the performance of these tests when the shocks may be fractionally integrated, an alternative model paradigm that allows for either weak or strong dependence in the shocks. We demonstrate that the fixed-b trend break statistics converge to well-defined limit distributions under both the null and local alternatives in this case (and retain consistency against fixed alternatives), but that these distributions depend on the fractional integration parameter δ. As a result, it is only when δ is either zero or one that the SV critical values yield correctly sized tests. Consequently, we propose a procedure that employs δ-adaptive critical values to remove the size distortions in the SV test. In addition, use of δ-adaptive critical values also allows us to consider a simplification of the SV test that is (asymptotically) correctly sized across δ but can also provide a significant increase in power over the standard SV test when δ = 1.

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  • Iacone, Fabrizio & Leybourne, Stephen J. & Taylor, A.M. Robert, 2013. "ON THE BEHAVIOR OF FIXED-b TREND BREAK TESTS UNDER FRACTIONAL INTEGRATION," Econometric Theory, Cambridge University Press, vol. 29(2), pages 393-418, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:cup:etheor:v:29:y:2013:i:02:p:393-418_00
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    1. Alessandro Casini & Pierre Perron, 2018. "Structural Breaks in Time Series," Papers 1805.03807, arXiv.org.
    2. Fabrizio Iacone & Stephen J. Leybourne & A. M. Robert Taylor, 2014. "A FIXED- b TEST FOR A BREAK IN LEVEL AT AN UNKNOWN TIME UNDER FRACTIONAL INTEGRATION," Journal of Time Series Analysis, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(1), pages 40-54, January.
    3. Skrobotov, Anton, 2020. "Survey on structural breaks and unit root tests," Applied Econometrics, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), vol. 58, pages 96-141.
    4. Carina Gerstenberger, 2021. "Robust discrimination between long‐range dependence and a change in mean," Journal of Time Series Analysis, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 42(1), pages 34-62, January.
    5. Bent Jesper Christensen & Robinson Kruse & Philipp Sibbertsen, 2013. "A unified framework for testing in the linear regression model under unknown order of fractional integration," CREATES Research Papers 2013-35, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University.
    6. Javier Hualde & Fabrizio Iacone, 2015. "Small-b and Fixed-b Asymptotics for Weighted Covariance Estimation in Fractional Cointegration," Journal of Time Series Analysis, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 36(4), pages 528-540, July.

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