Title

On the end-point issue in unit root tests in the presence of a structural break

Authors

Authors

J. Lee

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Econ. Lett.

Keywords

end point; unit root test; structural break; Economics

Abstract

This paper shows that the spurious rejection problem illustrated by Leybourne et al. (1998) [Leybourne, S.J., Mills, T., Newbold, P., 1998. Spurious rejections by Dickey-Fuller tests in the presence of a break under the null. Journal of Econometrics 87, 191-203] is restricted to the DF type test, which is based on the conditional likelihood function discarding the first observation. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved. JEL classification: C12; C15; C22.

Journal Title

Economics Letters

Volume

68

Issue/Number

1

Publication Date

1-1-2000

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

7

Last Page

11

WOS Identifier

WOS:000087537000002

ISSN

0165-1765

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