We show that any consistent tests for serial correlation have unit local power against the nearly integrated, nearly white noise process. The expected higher power is confirmed in finite sample Monte Carlo simulations

We consider the power properties of the CUSUM and CUSUM of squares (CUSQ) tests in the presence of a one-time change in the parameters of a linear regression model. A result due to Ploberger and Krämer [1990. The local power of the cusum and cusum of squares tests. Econometric Theory 6,...

The recent literature has underscored the importance of properly accounting for nonstationarity in the application of the synthetic control methods and proposed inference methods to do so. This note studies the size properties of the method proposed by Masini and Medeiros (2022) through...

For a broad class of linear biased estimators, we establish conditions under which the F statistic based on biased estimators is identical to the F statistic based on least-squares estimator. Several biased estimators in the literature are shown to satisfy these conditions