Fabrizio Iacone , University of York Stepana Lazarova , Queen Mary University of London
August 18, 2017
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We consider changes in the degree of persistence of a process when the degree of persistence is characterized as the order of integration of a strongly dependent process. To avoid the risk of incorrectly specifying the data generating process we employ local Whittle estimates which uses only frequencies local at zero. The limit distribution of the test statistic under the null is not standard but it is well known in the literature. A Monte Carlo study shows that this inference procedure performs well in finite samples.
J.E.L classification codes: C22
Keywords:Long memory, persistence, break, local Whittle estimate