Test Of Hypotheses In Panel Data Models When The Regressor And Disturbances Are Possibly Nonstationary

Badi Baltagi, Chihwa Kao and Sanggon Na

No 128, Center for Policy Research Working Papers from Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School, Syracuse University

Abstract: This paper considers the problem of hypotheses testing in a simple panel data regression model with random individual effects and serially correlated disturbances. Following Baltagi, Kao and Liu (2008), we allow for the possibility of non-stationarity in the regressor and/or the disturbance term. While Baltagi et al. (2008) focus on the asymptotic properties and distributions of the standard panel data estimators, this paper focuses on test of hypotheses in this setting. One important finding is that unlike the time series case, one does not necessarily need to rely on the “super-efficient” type AR estimator by Perron and Yabu (2009) to make inference in panel data. In fact, we show that the simple t-ratio always converges to the standard normal distribution regardless of whether the disturbances and/or the regressor are stationary.

Keywords: Panel Data; OLS; Fixed-Effects; First-Difference; GLS; t-ratio. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 103 pages
Date: 2011-02
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