Testing jointly for structural changes in the error variance and coe¢ cients of a linear regression model

Pierre Perron, Yohei Yamamoto and Jing Zhou (zhoujing112@foxmail.com)
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Jing Zhou: Seeking Sense Investment Management Co., Ltd

No WP2020-010, Boston University - Department of Economics - Working Papers Series from Boston University - Department of Economics

Abstract: We provide a comprehensive treatment for the problem of testing jointly for structural changes in both the regression coe¢ cients and the variance of the errors in a single equation system involving stationary regressors. Our framework is quite general in that we allow for general mixing-type regressors and the assumptions on the errors are quite mild. Their distribution can be non-normal and conditional heteroskedasticity is permitted. Extensions to the case with serially correlated errors are also treated. We provide the required tools to address the following testing problems, among others: a) testing for given numbers of changes in regression coe¢ cients and variance of the errors; b) testing for some unknown number of changes within some pre-specified maximum; c) testing for changes in variance (regression coe¢ cients) allowing for a given number of changes in the regression coe¢ cients (variance); d) a sequential procedure to estimate the number of changes present. These testing problems are important for practical applications as witnessed by interests in macroeconomics and finance where documenting structural changes in the variability of shocks to simple autoregressions or Vector Autoregressive Models has been a concern.

Keywords: Change-point; Variance shift; Conditional heteroskedasticity; Likelihood ratio tests (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 66 pages
Date: 2019-04, Revised 2020-02
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