Can Economic Time Series Be Differenced to Stationarity?
经济时间序列能通过差分变得平稳吗?
This paper considers a class of nonstationary varying coefficient autoregressive models which allow stochastic variability in the autoregressive root. It is argued that such models provide a better description of the behaviour of macroeconomic variables than fixed unit root autoregressive models as they allow more general forms of nonstationarity. We construct a test of the null hypothesis of a fixed unit root against the alternative of a fixed unit root against the…