Bootstrap Sequential Determination of the Co-integration Rank in VAR Models

Giuseppe Cavaliere, Anders Rahbek, A. M. Robert Taylor

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Abstract

Determining the co-integrating rank of a system of variables has become a fundamental aspect of applied research in macroeconomics and finance. It is wellknown that standard asymptotic likelihood ratio tests for co-integration rank of Johansen (1996) can be unreliable in small samples with empirical rejection frequencies often very much in excess of the nominal level. As a consequence, bootstrap versions of these tests have been developed. To be useful, however, sequential procedures for determining the co-integrating rank based on these bootstrap tests need to be consistent, in the sense that the probability of selecting a rank smaller than (equal to) the true co-integrating rank will converge to zero (one minus the marginal significance level), as the sample size diverges, for general I(1) processes. No such likelihood-based procedure is currently known to be available. In this paper we fill this gap in the literature by proposing a bootstrap sequential algorithm which we demonstrate delivers consistent cointegration rank estimation for general I(1) processes. Finite sample Monte Carlo simulations show the proposed procedure performs well in practice.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherDepartment of Economics, University of Copenhagen
Number of pages19
Publication statusPublished - 2010

Keywords

  • Faculty of Social Sciences
  • trace test
  • sequential rank determination
  • i.i.d. bootstrap
  • wild bootstrap

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