Monday, May 3, 2010

Dickey-Fuller/Engle-Granger test

Appropriate test for cointegration.

To test whether two variables are cointegrated, we regress one data series on the other and examine the residuals for a unit root using the Dickey-Fuller/Engle-Granger test. If we reject the null hypothesis, the error terms of the two data series are covariance stationary and cointegrated. The regression results will be valid.

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