Testing for moderate explosiveness
Summary This paper considers a moderately explosive AR(1) process where the autoregressive root approaches unity from the right at a certain rate. We first develop a test for the null of moderate explosiveness under independent and identically distributed errors. We show that the t statistic is asymptotically standard normal regardless of whether the true process is dominated by the stochastic moderately explosive trend or the deterministic nonlinear drift trend. This result…