Testing explosive bubbles with time-varying volatility

David Harvey, Stephen Leybourne () and Yang Zu

Econometric Reviews, 2019, vol. 38, issue 10, 1131-1151

Abstract: This article considers the problem of testing for an explosive bubble in financial data in the presence of time-varying volatility. We propose a weighted least squares-based variant of the Phillips et al.) test for explosive autoregressive behavior. We find that such an approach has appealing asymptotic power properties, with the potential to deliver substantially greater power than the established OLS-based approach for many volatility and bubble settings. Given that the OLS-based test can outperform the weighted least squares-based test for other volatility and bubble specifications, we also suggest a union of rejections procedure that succeeds in capturing the better power available from the two constituent tests for a given alternative. Our approach involves a nonparametric kernel-based volatility function estimator for computation of the weighted least squares-based statistic, together with the use of a wild bootstrap procedure applied jointly to both individual tests, delivering a powerful testing procedure that is asymptotically size-robust to a wide range of time-varying volatility specifications.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/07474938.2018.1536099

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