School of Economics

Granger Centre Seminar: Anton Skrobotov (RANEPA, Russia)

Location
Zoom
Date(s)
Thursday 11th March 2021 (12:30-14:00)
Description

Time-transformed test for the explosive bubbles under non-stationary volatility (with Eiji Kurozumi and Alexey Tsarev)

 

Abstract: This paper is devoted to testing for the explosive bubble under time-varying non-stationary volatility. Because the limiting distribution of the seminal Phillips et al. (2011) test depends on the variance function and usually requires a bootstrap implementation under heteroskedasticity, we construct the test based on a deformation of the time domain. The proposed test is asymptotically pivotal under the null hypothesis and its limiting distribution coincides with that of the standard test under homoskedasticity, so that the test does not require computationally extensive methods for inference. Appealing finite sample properties are demonstrated through Monte-Carlo simulations. An empirical application demonstrates that the upsurge behavior of cryptocurrency time series in the middle of the sample is partially explained by the volatility change.

Link to paper

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