Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 April 2020
We discuss the joint temporal and contemporaneous aggregation of N independent copies of random-coefficient AR(1) processes driven by independent and identically distributed innovations in the domain of normal attraction of an $\alpha$-stable distribution,
$0< \alpha \le 2$, as both N and the time scale n tend to infinity, possibly at different rates. Assuming that the tail distribution function of the random autoregressive coefficient regularly varies at the unit root with exponent
$\beta > 0$, we show that, for
$\beta < \max (\alpha, 1)$, the joint aggregate displays a variety of stable and non-stable limit behaviors with stability index depending on
$\alpha$,
$\beta$ and the mutual increase rate of N and n. The paper extends the results of Pilipauskaitė and Surgailis (2014) from
$\alpha =2$ to
$0 < \alpha < 2$.