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Properties of the Power Envelope for Tests Against Both Stationary and Explosive Alternatives: The Effect of Trends

Marsh, Patrick

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This paper details a precise analytic e¤ect that inclusion of a linear trend has on the power of Neyman-Pearson point optimal unit root tests and thence the power envelope. Both stationary and explosive alternatives are considered. The envelope can be characterized by probabilities for two, related, sums of chi-square random variables. A stochastic expansion, in powers of the local-to-unity parameter, of the di¤erence between these loses its leading term when a linear trend is included. This implies that the power envelope converges to size at a faster rate, which can then be exploited to prove that the power envelope must necessarily be lower. This e¤ect is shown to be, analytically, greater asymptotically than in small samples and numerically far greater for explosive than for stationary alternatives. Only a linear trend has a speci…c rate e¤ect on the power envelope, however other deterministic variables will have some e¤ect. The methods of the paper lead to a simple direct measure of this e¤ect which is then informative about power, in practice.

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Marsh, P. (2020). Properties of the Power Envelope for Tests Against Both Stationary and Explosive Alternatives: The Effect of Trends. Journal of Time Series Analysis, 41(1), 146-153. https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsa.12458

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 11, 2019
Online Publication Date Mar 18, 2019
Publication Date Jan 1, 2020
Deposit Date Feb 14, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 19, 2020
Journal Journal of Time Series Analysis
Print ISSN 0143-9782
Electronic ISSN 1467-9892
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 41
Issue 1
Pages 146-153
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsa.12458
Keywords Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty; Statistics and Probability; Applied Mathematics
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1547575
Publisher URL https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jtsa.12458
Additional Information This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Marsh, P. (2019), Properties of the Power Envelope for Tests Against Both Stationary and Explosive Alternatives: The Effect of Trends. J. Time Ser. Anal., which has been published in final form at doi:10.1111/jtsa.12458. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
Contract Date Feb 14, 2019

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