Abstract
In this paper, we develop new threshold cointegration tests with SETAR and MTAR adjustment allowing for the presence of structural breaks in the equilibrium equation. We propose a simple procedure to simultaneously estimate the previously unknown breakpoint and test the null hypothesis of no cointegration. Thereby, we extend the well-known residual-based cointegration test with regime shift introduced by (Gregory, A. W., and B. E. Hansen. 1996a. “Residual-based Tests for Cointegration in Models with Regime Shifts.” Journal of Econometrics 70: 99–126) to include forms of nonlinear adjustment. We derive the asymptotic distribution of the test statistics and demonstrate the finite-sample performance of the tests in a series of Monte Carlo experiments. We find a substantial decrease of power of the conventional threshold cointegration tests caused by a shift in the slope coefficient of the equilibrium equation. The proposed tests perform superior in these situations. An application to the “rockets and feathers” hypothesis of price adjustment in the US gasoline market provides empirical support for this methodology.
Acknowledgement
I thank Karl-Heinz Schild, Karlheinz Fleischer, Robert Jung, Konstantin Kuck, Martin Wagner, Oliver Stypka, Florian Stark and two anonymous referees for valuable comments and suggestions. Further, I thank seminar participants at the University of Marburg, University of Hohenheim, University of Tübingen and Technical University Dortmund, as well as participants of the THE Christmas Workshop in Stuttgart, German Statistical Week in Rostock and the 23rd Spring Meeting of Young Economists in Palma.
Appendix
The asymptotic distribution is derived by adapting the results of Gregory and Hansen (1992) to match the F-statistic process involving a threshold indicator function using results in Maki and Kitasaka (2015). However, Maki and Kitasaka (2015) use a different definition of the threshold parameter space in their SETAR model. The threshold parameter in our model is fixed, i.e. belongs to a trivial compact subset of ℝ whereas the parameter space in Maki and Kitasaka (2015) is data dependent (see the discussion on threshold parameter space in Section 2.2 of their paper). Indicator functions with threshold parameters defined on compact sets are treated in Seo (2008). The proof only refers to model C/S while the results for the remaining models can be deduced from the results obtained for this model. Hence, we consider the cointegrating regression,
where
We define the (2m + 3)-vector
Furthermore, we define
and
First, we consider the least squares estimator of the parameters of the cointegrating regression. It is shown in Gregory and Hansen (1992) using the FCLT and the continuous mapping theorem (CMT, see Billingsley (1999), Theorem 2.7) that
where the weak convergence is with respect to the uniform metric over
We define the vector
When we set
Next, we state some useful convergence results for the residuals of the cointegrating regression. We define the residual series
Using Lemma 2.2 of Phillips and Ouliaris (1990) yields
where
The first-differenced residuals are expressed as
and
The asymptotic counterpart to
for all functions with left-limits. Then, we can define the differential
Under Assumption 1, ξt is a stationary linear vector process and consequently, the scalar process
where
Now, we consider the auxiliary regression. We apply the SETAR model to the residuals according to (4) and compute the test statistics Fτ. Note that the estimated adjustment coefficients might be correlated with the estimated coefficients of the additional lagged differences. Therefore, we write the least squares estimator of
We partition the matrix Uτ as
and similarly the t ratio of
In the remainder of the proof, we focus on t1. Scaling the t ratio appropriately yields the numerator
and the term
Finally, we need convergence results for
Thus, Theorem 2.2 of Kurtz and Protter (1991) combined with results (28) and (34) yields
while (28), (34) and the CMT yield
For the variance estimate,
where the long-run covariance matrix is given by
and
Similar results can be obtained for t2 so that the results (35), (36), (37) combine with the CMT to proof the theorem under the null hypothesis.
Under the alternative, the system is cointegrated so that we have
from Phillips and Durlauf (1986), Theorem 4.1. Thus, for the residual series it holds that
By assumption a stationary SETAR representation of
where
If we consider the t ratio of
we find that
which yields
The proof is structured similarly to the proof of Theorem 1. Using the results for the cointegrating regression, we write the AR representation of the MTAR error term process as
and have
where
and the t ratio of
where
Finally, we need convergence results for
where G(⋅) is the marginal distribution of
and Theorem 3 of Caner and Hansen (2001) yields
For the variance estimate,
The results (52), (53), (54) combine with the CMT to proof
Analogously, we can show that
holds. Finally, we observe that taking the supremum over all
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