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Hypothesis testing with error correction models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2021

Patrick W. Kraft ,
Ellen M. Key  and
Matthew J. Lebo Open the ORCID record for Matthew J. Lebo [Opens in a new window]
Patrick W. Kraft
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Ellen M. Key
Affiliation:
Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA
Matthew J. Lebo*
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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*Corresponding author. Email: matthew.lebo@uwo.ca
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Abstract

Grant and Lebo (2016) and Keele et al. (2016) clarify the conditions under which the popular general error correction model (GECM) can be used and interpreted easily: In a bivariate GECM the data must be integrated in order to rely on the error correction coefficient, $\alpha _1^\ast$, to test cointegration and measure the rate of error correction between a single exogenous x and a dependent variable, y. Here we demonstrate that even if the data are all integrated, the test on $\alpha _1^\ast$ is misunderstood when there is more than a single independent variable. The null hypothesis is that there is no cointegration between y and any x but the correct alternative hypothesis is that y is cointegrated with at least one—but not necessarily more than one—of the x's. A significant $\alpha _1^\ast$ can occur when some I(1) regressors are not cointegrated and the equation is not balanced. Thus, the correct limiting distributions of the right-hand-side long-run coefficients may be unknown. We use simulations to demonstrate the problem and then discuss implications for applied examples.

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Time series models

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Political Science Research and Methods , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , October 2022 , pp. 870 - 878
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the European Political Science Association

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