© 1995 by Biometrika Trust
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The power of modified instrumental variables tests for unit roots
Department of Economics, The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio 43210-1172, U. S.A.
Received for publication 1 July 1994.
Revision received 1 February 1995.
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In this paper we investigate the power of Hall's (1989) instrumental variables tests for unit roots. A slight modification is made to Hall's t statistic so that the modified t statistic can be applied directly without encountering the possible negative standard error problem of Hall's original t statistic. The major finding is that the power curves of the instrumental variables tests are not monotonic functions of the autoregressive coefficient of the unit root models when there is a negative moving average component.
Key Words: Instrumental variables estimator Moving average errors Time series Unit root