A1710
Title: Localized fully modified OLS estimation
Authors: Martin Wagner - University of Klagenfurt, Bank of Slovenia and Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (Austria) [presenting]
Matthias Vetter - University of Kiel (Germany)
Rafael Kawka - Technical University Dortmund (Germany)
Abstract: An extension of cointegration analysis is considered to a situation where the first differences of the analyzed processes are so-called locally stationary processes rather than stationary processes. This allows us to model long-run relationships between time series whilst allowing for more or less turbulent or persistent periods in the analysis. As is common in the cointegrating regression literature, we allow for regressor endogeneity and error serial correlation, now both time-varying because of our locally-stationary setup. The required functional central limit results for this setting are developed which then allow showing that: First, the OLS estimator is consistent but its limiting distribution is contaminated by second-order bias terms, which differ, of course, from the bias terms arising in the standard context. Second, a localized version of the fully modified OLS estimator for a standard cointegration setting, leads to a zero-mean Gaussian mixture limiting distribution. An important difference to the standard cointegration setting is that fully modified based inference requires something like a HAC-type correction. The theoretical analysis is complemented by a simulation study as well as an empirical application to the forward rate unbiasedness hypothesis.