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 non-rejection of the unit root hypothesis. The bulk of the existing literature has focused on the application of...

This paper studies the problem of estimation and inference in cointegrated regression models with multiple structural changes. Our framework is general enough to incorporate both stationary and integrated regressors. Both pure and partial structural change models are analyzed. We derive the...