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A STATE SPACE CANONICAL FORM FOR UNIT ROOT PROCESSES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2012

Dietmar Bauer
Affiliation:
Austrian Institute of Technology
Martin Wagner*
Affiliation:
Institute for Advanced Studies and Frisch Centre for Economic Research
*
*Address correspondence to Martin Wagner, Institute for Advanced Studies, Department of Economics and Finance, Stumpergasse 56, A-1060 Vienna, Austria; e-mail: Martin.Wagner@ihs.ac.at.

Abstract

In this paper we develop a canonical state space representation of autoregressive moving average (ARMA) processes with unit roots with integer integration orders at arbitrary unit root frequencies. The developed representation utilizes a state process with a particularly simple dynamic structure, which in turn renders this representation highly suitable for unit root, cointegration, and polynomial cointegration analysis. We also propose a new definition of polynomial cointegration that overcomes limitations of existing definitions and extends the definition of multicointegration for I(2) processes of Granger and Lee (1989a, Journal of Applied Econometrics4, 145–159). A major purpose of the canonical representation for statistical analysis is the development of parameterizations of the sets of all state space systems of a given system order with specified unit root frequencies and integration orders. This is, e.g., useful for pseudo maximum likelihood estimation. In this respect an advantage of the state space representation, compared to ARMA representations, is that it easily allows one to put in place restrictions on the (co)integration properties. The results of the paper are exemplified for the cases of largest interest in applied work.

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