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On maintaining the power of the Kapetanios--Snell--Shin (KSS) test under uncertain initial conditions

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  • Jen-Je Su
  • Duc-Tho Nguyen

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This article investigates the impact of initial condition (specifically, the deviation of the initial observation from the underlying deterministic component) on the power properties of the nonlinear Kapetanios-- Snell--Shin (KSS) unit root test. While the Generalized Least Squares (GLS)-detrended KSS test has significant power advantage over the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS)-detrended KSS test if the initial deviation is small, the opposite occurs if the initial deviation is large. These results are similar to those found previously for the Dickey--Fuller (DF) test. To maintain good power properties across different initial conditions, a Union of Rejections (UR) strategy is adopted; the strategy is demonstrated to be useful.

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  • Jen-Je Su & Duc-Tho Nguyen, 2012. "On maintaining the power of the Kapetanios--Snell--Shin (KSS) test under uncertain initial conditions," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(9), pages 891-896, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:19:y:2012:i:9:p:891-896
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2011.607120
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