Bootstrap determination of the co-integration rank in VAR models

Giuseppe Cavaliere, Anders Rahbek and Robert Taylor

No 9, Quaderni di Dipartimento from Department of Statistics, University of Bologna

Abstract: This paper discusses a consistent bootstrap implementation of the likelihood ratio [LR] co-integration rank test and associated sequential rank determination procedure of Johansen (1996). The bootstrap samples are constructed using the restricted parameter estimates of the underlying VAR model which obtain under the reduced rank null hypothesis. A full asymptotic theory is provided which shows that, unlike the bootstrap procedure in Swensen (2006) where a combination of unrestricted and restricted estimates from the VAR model is used, the resulting bootstrap data are I(1) and satisfy the null co-integration rank, regardless of the true rank. This ensures that the bootstrap LR test is asymptotically correctly sized and that the probability that the bootstrap sequential procedure selects a rank smaller than the true rank converges to zero. Monte Carlo evidence suggests that our bootstrap procedures work very well in practice.

Keywords: Bootstrap; Co-integration; Trace statistic; Rank determination Cointegrazione; Statistica “traccia”; determinazione del rango (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15
Date: 2011
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