Semi-nonparametric cointegration testing

H. Peter Boswijk () and Andre Lucas

No 41, Serie Research Memoranda from VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics

Abstract: This paper considers a semi-nonparametric cointegration test. The test uses the LM-testing principle. The score function needed for the LM-test is estimated from the data using an expansion of the density around a Student t distribution. In this way, we capture both the possible fat-tailedness and the skewness of the innovation process. Model selection criteria are employed to select the appropriate order of the expansion in finite samples. Using a Monte-Carlo experiment, we show that the semi-nonparametric cointegration test has good size and power properties. The test outperforms previous testing procedures in terms of power over a broad class of distributions for the innovation process.

JEL-codes: C12 C13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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