This paper considers tests of nonlinear parametric restrictions in semiparametric econometric models. To date, only Wald tests of such restrictions have been considered in the literature. Here, Wald, Lagrange multiplier, and likelihood ratio-like test statistics are considered and are shown to...

In Giraitis, Robinson, and Samarov (1997), we have shown that the optimal rate for memory parameter estimators in semiparametric long memory models with degree of "local smoothness" [beta] is n-r([beta]), r([beta])=[beta]/(2[beta]+1), and that a log-periodogram regression estimator (a modified...

The aggregation procedure when a sample of length N is divided into blocks of length m=o(N), m--[infinity] and observations in each block are replaced by their sample mean, is widely used in statistical inference. Taqqu et al. (1995, Fractals, 3, 785-798), and Teverovsky and Taqqu (1997, J. Time...