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Behaviour of Dickey-Fuller tests when there is a break under the unit root null hypothesis

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We show that Dickey and Fuller's [1979. Distribution of the estimator for autoregressive time series with a unit root. J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 74, 427-431; 1981. Likelihood ratio statistics for autoregressive time series with a unit root. Econometrica 49, 1057-1072.] normalized estimator, and F-statistics will spuriously reject the unit root null when the true data generating process is a unit root with a break.

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  • Sen, Amit, 2008. "Behaviour of Dickey-Fuller tests when there is a break under the unit root null hypothesis," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 78(6), pages 622-628, April.
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