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wrong estimation of the true number of shifts in structural break models: Theoretical and numerical evidence

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  • Jamel JOUINI

    (GREQAM, Université de la Méditerranée, France and FSEGN, ESSAIT and LEGI, Université 7 Novembre de Carthage, Tunisie)

  • Mohamed BOUTAHAR

    (GREQAM and Faculté des Sciences, Université de la Méditerranée, France)

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to consider the problem of selecting the number of breaks in the mean of a time series. Indeed, we prove analytically and show by a Monte Carlo study that some model selection criteria will tend to choose a spuriously high number of structural breaks when the process is trend-stationary without changes. The important question suggested by our results is that of distinction between trend-stationary process and random walk when modelling real data series.

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  • Jamel JOUINI & Mohamed BOUTAHAR, 2007. "wrong estimation of the true number of shifts in structural break models: Theoretical and numerical evidence," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 3(3), pages 1-10.
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