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Global Journal of Science Frontier Research: F
Mathematics and Decision Sciences
Volume 14 Issue 5 Version 1.0 Year 2014
Type : Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal
Publisher: Global Journals Inc. (USA)
Online ISSN: 2249-4626 & Print ISSN: 0975-5896
Boundary and Sign Problems of Parameters along with its
Solutions of the Augmented Dickey-Fuller Test
By Shayla Naznin, Gowranga Kumar Paul & Ajit Kumar Majumder
Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Bangladesh
Abstract- Usual test of testing unit root such as Dickey-Fuller (DF), Augmented Dickey-Fuller
(ADF), Phillips Perron etc ignores sign and boundary of parameters. In this paper, we
demonstrated the ignorance of sign and boundary of parameters and consequences of this
ignorance in estimation and testing by Monte Carlo Simulation. Our main objective is to develop
a method to capture the non-stationarity keeping in mind the boundary and sign problem and to
develop the restricted ADF test based on ESS using the constraint estimate of parameters. We
compare the power properties of the usual ADF test and ADF test with restricted error sum of
squares using the constraint estimate of parameters by Monte Carlo Simulation and we find that
the proposed ADF test gives better result than the usual ADF test in terms of power properties.
Keywords: stationarity test, simulation, restricted ADF test, power of the test, optimization.
GJSFR-F Classification : JEL Code: C12, C13, C15
BoundaryandSignProblemsofParametersalongwithitsSolutionsoftheAugmentedDickey-FullerTest
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