Determining whether per capita output can be characterized by a stochastic trend is complicated by the fact that infrequent breaks in trend can bias standard unit root tests towards nonrejection of the unit root hypothesis. The bulk of the existing literature has focused on the application of...

This paper studies the behavior of recently proposed bootstrap tests for the null hypothesis of stationarity when the data are generated under the alternative hypothesis of a unit root. Using Monte Carlo experiments and empirical examples, it is shown that the power of these tests critically...

This paper studies issues related to the estimation of a structural change in the persistence of a univariate time series. The break is such that the process has a unit root [i.e., is I(1)] in the pre-break regime but reverts to a stationary [i.e., I(0)] process in the post-break regime or vice...

This paper revisits the well known Feldstein-Horioka saving-investment correlation puzzle from a time series perspective using a sample of 21 OECD countries. We argue that the strong positive correlation between saving and investment as originally identified by Feldstein and Horioka (1980)...