 UNCERTAIN EFFECTS OF SHOCKS VS. UNCERTAIN UNIT ROOT: AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF U.S. REAL GDPYu-Lieh Huang and Chao-Hsi Huang Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, 2015, vol. 56, issue 1, 117-134 Abstract: Instead of exploring the uncertainty about the existence of a unit root in the long-span U.S. real GDP series as in previous studies, e.g., Rudebusch (1993), in this study we investigate the uncertainty about the state (permanence vs. transitoriness) of the output shock period by period by using the “innovation regime-switching” (IRS) model. In this model the effect of a shock may be permanent or transitory in different time periods. By applying the IRS model to the 1870-2008 annual U.S. real GDP data, we find that the output shocks in the periods of the 1893 depression, the 1907 financial panic, the two World Wars and the Great Depression are likely to have had a large but transitory effect, whereas the output shocks in the remaining periods are likely to have had a permanent effect. This result suggests that the long span real GDP is neither a unit-root series nor a trend-stationary series. Keywords: Innovation regime-switching; permanent innovation; trend-stationarity; uncertain unit root (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hit:hitjec:v:56:y:2015:i:1:p:117-134 DOI: 10.15057/27191 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics from Hitotsubashi University Contact information at EDIRC. |
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