Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5057894 Economics Letters 2017 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

•This paper considers spurious regressions with partial unit root and near partial unit root processes.•Three models are investigated via simulations to study the rejection probability of the associated t-statistics in detecting the spurious correlation.•The results reveal that the spurious regression is a not-so-spurious problem, which cannot be eliminated by adding AR(1) errors in re-estimation.•The advocated balanced regression approach is found effective in detecting the non-existent relationship.

This paper considers spurious regressions with partial unit root and near partial unit root processes. Three models are investigated via simulations to study the rejection probability of the associated t-statistics in detecting the spurious correlation. The results reveal that the spurious regression is a not-so-spurious problem, which cannot be eliminated by adding AR(1) errors in re-estimation. Moreover, the advocated balanced regression approach is found effective in detecting the non-existent relationship.

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