Is Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Series Stationary in EU Countries? Evidence from the RALS-CIPS Test

Gökhan Konat () and Fatma Zeren ()
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Gökhan Konat: Department of Econometrics, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey,
Fatma Zeren: Department of Econometrics, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey

Economics Bulletin, 2021, vol. 41, issue 3, 1813-1825

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to propose a new residual-based unit root test and then apply it to examine the stationarity of gross domestic product (GDP) for EU membership countries. For this purpose, the CIPS test proposed by Pesaran (2007) has been extended to a structure that takes into account the knowledge of the non-normally distributed residuals. For this, the residual augmented least squares (RALS) estimators proposed by Im and Schmidt (2008) were included in the CIPS test. The second and third moments of the error terms are added to the cross-sectionally augmented ADF (CADF) regression that constitutes the CIPS test process. When calibrated under the behavior of the residues non-normally distributed residuals during the data generation process, it is seen that the panel unit root test specific to the series in which the residuals are not normally distributed has higher power and more appropriate size than CIPS test. According to the results of empirical analysis, it was concluded that the CIPS test was stationary only at the 10% level, while according to the RALS-CIPS test it was concluded that it was stationary at the 1% significance level. It can be interpreted that the RALS-CIPS test is stronger because it used additional information consisting of residual moments. The test offers a simple way to have good size and power properties for non-normal errors.

Keywords: panel data; panel unit root; CADF; CIPS; RALS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C4 E1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-09-17
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