A Strategy for Testing the Unit Root in AR(1) Model with Intercept. A Monte Carlo Experiment

José Angel Roldán Casas () and Rafaela Dios ()
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José Angel Roldán Casas: Universidad de Córdoba, http://www.uco.es/

No E2004/37, Economic Working Papers at Centro de Estudios Andaluces from Centro de Estudios Andaluces

Abstract: In this paper we introduce a strategy for testing the unit root hypothesis in a first-order autoregressive process with an unknown intercept where the initial value of the variable is a known constant. In the context of this model the standard Dickey-Fuller test is nonsimilar, the intercept being the nuisance parameter. The testing strategy we propose takes into account this non-similarity. It is an unusual two-sided test of the random walk hypothesis since it involves two distributions where the acceptance region is constructed by taking away equal areas for the lower tail of the Student’s t distribution and the upper tail of the distribution tabulated by Dickey and Fuller under the null hypothesis of unit root. In some cases, this strategy does not allow the taking of a direct decision concerning the existence of a unit root. To deal with these situations we suggest testing for the significance of the intercept, and if doubt continues, we use F1 test proposed by Dickey and Fuller (1981). Finally, in order to demonstrate the relevance of non-similarity, Monte Carlo simulations are used to show that the testing strategy is more powerful at stable alternatives and has less size distortions than the two-sided test considered by Dickey and Fuller.

Keywords: unit root; Dickey-Fuller tests; non-similarity; Monte Carlo simulations; empirical size; nominal size (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C15 C22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2004
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