Morley, James; Panovska, Irina B.; Sinclair, Tara M. - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 2014
stationarity tests that allow for at most a deterministic trend under the null hypothesis. However, given the small sample sizes … available for most macroeconomic variables, standard Lagrange multiplier tests of stationarity will perform poorly when the data … are highly persistent. To address this problem, we propose the use of a likelihood ratio test of stationarity based …