The KPSS test with outliers Academic Article

journal

  • Computational Economics

abstract

  • We investigate the effects of outliers on the KPSS tests. We find that for nonstationary series outliers induce spurious stationarity by lowering the power of these tests. The empirical size of these tests is also found to be sensitive to the location of the outlier.

publication date

  • 2005-11-1

edition

  • 26

keywords

  • KPSS Test
  • Outliers
  • Stationarity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0927-7099

number of pages

  • 9

start page

  • 59

end page

  • 67