Holmes, Mark J.; Otero, Jesús; Panagiotidis, Theodore - Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) - 2009
In this paper, we test for the stationarity of European Union budget deficits over the period 1971 to 2006, using a …-based bootstrap approach that allows us to test the null hypothesis of joint stationarity with endogenously determined structural … stationarity over the full sample period irrespective of us allowing for structural breaks. This conclusion also holds when …