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Testing for Stationarity at High Frequency

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  • Jiang, Bibo
  • Lu, Ye
  • Park, Joon Y.

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The high frequency behavior of the KPSS test, which is most commonly used to test for stationarity, is analyzed in a continuous time framework. Our asymptotics show that the test has no discriminatory power at high frequency: It either always rejects stationarity or has no nontrivial power at high frequency. The test becomes valid at high frequency only when the bandwidth of its longrun variance estimate is chosen suitably in our framework. We also analyze the residual-based KPSS test for cointegration.

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  • Jiang, Bibo & Lu, Ye & Park, Joon Y., 2018. "Testing for Stationarity at High Frequency," Working Papers 2018-09, University of Sydney, School of Economics.
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    Keywords

    KPSS test; testing for stationarity; testing for cointegration; continuous time process; high frequency observation;
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    • C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Estimation: General
    • C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes

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