Estimating Multiple Breaks One at a Time
逐一估计多个结构断点
Sequential (one-by-one) rather than simultaneous estimation of multiple breaks is investigated in this paper. The advantage of this method lies in its computational savings and its robustness to misspecification in the number of breaks. The number of least-squares regressions required to compute all of the break points is of order T , the sample size. Each estimated break point is shown to be consistent for one of the true ones despite underspecification of the number of…