Feedback covariates unit root tests: an application to the sustainability of fiscal policy

Patrick Fève, Hénin, Pierre-Yves and Philippe Jolivaldt

CEPREMAP Working Papers (Couverture Orange) from CEPREMAP

Abstract: Sustainability tests often ignore the joint dynamics of stock and flow variables. This paper shows that such a practice leads to inappropriate statistical inference, and that taking into account this joint dynamics when testing for unit root induces large power gains. This paper introduces a new statistics denoted FADF (Feedback augmented Dickey Fuller), which fully combines feedback effects and covariates. The paper derives the limit distribution of the test statistic and comments on the asymptotic power functions. A simulation study and an empirical application based on US public debt sustainability illustrate the potential of this approach.

JEL-codes: C12 C22 H62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
View list of references

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cepremap.cnrs.fr/couv_orange/co9810.ps (application/postscript)
http://www.cepremap.cnrs.fr/couv_orange/co9810.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpm:cepmap:9810

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CEPREMAP Working Papers (Couverture Orange) from CEPREMAP
Series data maintained by Michel Juillard ().