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On the Usefulness or Lack Thereof of Optimality Criteria for Structural Change Tests

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  • Pierre Perron

    (Boston University)

  • Yohei Yamamoto

    (Hitotsubashi University)

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Elliott and Muller (2006) considered the problem of testing for general types of parameter variations, including infrequent breaks. They developed a framework that yields optimal tests, in the sense that they nearly attain some local Gaussian power envelop. The main ingredient in their setup is that the variance of the process gener- ating the changes in the parameters must go to zero at a fast rate. They recommended the restricted model. We show that for breaks that are very small, its power is indeed higher than other tests, including the popular sup-Wald test. However, the differences are very minor. When the magnitude of change is moderate to large, the power of the test is very low in the context of a regression with lagged dependent variables or when a correction is applied to account for serial correlation in the errors. In many cases, the power goes to zero as the magnitude of change increases. The power of the sup-Wald test does not show that this non-monotonicity and its power is far superior to the test when the break is not very small. We claim that the optimality of the test does not come from the properties of the test statistics but the criterion adopted, which is not useful to analyze structural change tests. Instead, we use fixed-break size asymptotic approximations to assess the relative efficiency or power of the two tests. When doing so, it is shown that the sup-Wald test indeed dominates the test and, in many cases, the latter has zero relative asymptotic efficiency.

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  • Pierre Perron & Yohei Yamamoto, "undated". "On the Usefulness or Lack Thereof of Optimality Criteria for Structural Change Tests," Boston University - Department of Economics - Working Papers Series 2013-012, Boston University - Department of Economics.
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