Abstract: Difficulties with inference in predictive regressions are generally attributed to strong persistence in the predictor series. We show that the major source of the problem is actually the nuisance intercept parameter and propose basing inference on the Restricted Likelihood, which is...

Difficulties with inference in predictive regressions are generally attributed tostrong persistence in the predictor series. We show that the major source of the problem is actually the nuisance intercept parameter and propose basing inference on the Restricted Likelihood,which is free of such...

Difficulties with inference in predictive regressions are generally attributed to strong persistence in the predictor series. We show that the major source of the problem is actually the nuisance intercept parameter and propose basing inference on the Restricted Likelihood,which is free of such...