This Paper Studies Tests of Joint Hypotheses in Time Series Regression with a Unit Root in Which Weakly Dependent and Heterogeneously Distributed Innovations Are Allowed. We Consider Two Types of Regression: One with a Constant and Lagged Dependent Variable, and the Other with a Trend Added. the...

Stock and Watson (1986) Tests the Hypothesis That Real Per Capita Gnp Has a Unit Root by Using a Test Statistic Due to Phillips (1985) Which Incorporates a Nonparametric Correction for the Serial Correlation Induced by System and Error Dynamics. the Version of This Test That Is Used by Stock and...

This Paper Intends to Develop a Coherent Methodological Framework Concerned with the Appraisal of Scientific Theories in Economics, and Which Is Based on a Postulated Aim of Science. We First Define the Scope of a Methodological Inquiry (Precise Definition of What Is Meant by the Logic of...