One-sided test for an unknown breakpoint: theory, computation, and application to monetary theory

Arturo Estrella () and Anthony P. Rodrigues ()

No 232, Staff Reports from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: The econometrics literature contains a variety of two-sided tests for unknown breakpoints in time-series models with one or more parameters. This paper derives an analogous one-sided test that takes into account the direction of the change for a single parameter. In particular, we propose a sup t statistic, which is distributed as a normalized Brownian bridge. The method is illustrated by testing whether the reaction of monetary policy to inflation has increased since 1959.

Keywords: Time-series analysis; Monetary policy; Inflation (Finance) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2005
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