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A Simple Test for Nonstationarity in Mixed Panels with Incidental Trends

Westerlund, Joakim LU (2014) In Economics Letters 125(2). p.160-163
Abstract
Ng (2008) shows how the cross-sectional variance of the observed panel data can be used to construct a simple test for the proportion of non-stationary units. However, in the case with incidental trends the test is distorted. The present note shows how the distortions can be substantially reduced by the use of bias-adjustment. It also investigates the local power of the bias-adjusted test, which is shown to suffer from the same incidental trends problem previously only documented for conventional tt-tests.
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Unit root test, Panel data, Incidental trends, Bias correction, Local asymptotic power
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Economics Letters
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125
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2
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160 - 163
publisher
Elsevier
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0165-1765
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10.1016/j.econlet.2014.09.003
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English
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  title        = {{A Simple Test for Nonstationarity in Mixed Panels with Incidental Trends}},
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