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A Pearson's test for symmetry with an application to the Spanish business cycle

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  • Jorge Belaire-Franch

    (Departament d'Anàlisi Econòmica, Facultat d'Economia, Universitat de València, Avgda. dels Tarongers s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain)

  • Dulce Contreras

    (Departament d'Anàlisi Econòmica, Facultat d'Economia, Universitat de València, Avgda. dels Tarongers s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain)

Abstract

In this paper, we look for asymmetries in the Spanish business cycle. To that end, we firstly propose an easy nonparametric testing procedure to test for symmetry based on a Pearson's chi-squared statistic, which we call P-test. Then, we test for two popular forms of asymmetry, deepness and steepness, using a battery of nonparametric tests. In addition, we analyse possible complementarities between the tests used in this paper, and we compute p-value adjustments for multiple tests.

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  • Jorge Belaire-Franch & Dulce Contreras, 2002. "A Pearson's test for symmetry with an application to the Spanish business cycle," Spanish Economic Review, Springer;Spanish Economic Association, vol. 4(3), pages 221-238.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:specre:v:4:y:2002:i:3:p:221-238
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    1. Perez-Alonso, Alicia, 2007. "A bootstrap approach to test the conditional symmetry in time series models," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 51(7), pages 3484-3504, April.
    2. Belaire-Franch, Jorge & Contreras, Dulce, 2003. "Tests for time reversibility: a complementarity analysis," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 81(2), pages 187-195, November.
    3. Delgado, Miguel A. & Song, Xiaojun, 2018. "Nonparametric tests for conditional symmetry," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 206(2), pages 447-471.
    4. Sami Saafi & Meriem Bel Haj Mohamed & Abdeljelil Farhat, 2017. "Untangling the causal relationship between tax burden distribution and economic growth in 23 OECD countries: Fresh evidence from linear and non-linear Granger causality," European Journal of Comparative Economics, Cattaneo University (LIUC), vol. 14(2), pages 265-301, December.

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    Keywords

    Pearson's test; business cycle; asymmetry; bootstrap;
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    JEL classification:

    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E39 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Other
    • C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General

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