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A comment on ‘Is the spurious regression problem spurious?’

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  • Martínez-Rivera, Berenice
  • Ventosa-Santaulària, Daniel

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McCallum (2010) presented evidence that the spurious regression problem can be solved by standard means. We show using finite-sample evidence that the spurious regression problem cannot always be fixed using standard autocorrelation correction procedures and remains, therefore, a not-so-spurious problem.

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  • Martínez-Rivera, Berenice & Ventosa-Santaulària, Daniel, 2012. "A comment on ‘Is the spurious regression problem spurious?’," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 115(2), pages 229-231.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:115:y:2012:i:2:p:229-231
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.12.044
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