Bias correcting adjustment coefficients in a cointegrated VAR with known cointegrating vectors

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Publication date 2014
Journal Economics Letters
Volume | Issue number 122 | 2
Pages (from-to) 224-228
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  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
Abstract The maximum likelihood estimator of the adjustment coefficient in a cointegrated vector autoregressive model (CVAR) is generally biased. For the case where the cointegrating vector is known in a first-order CVAR with no intercept, we derive a condition for the unbiasedness of the maximum likelihood estimator of the adjustment coefficients, and provide a simple characterization of the bias in case this condition is violated. A feasible bias correction method is shown to virtually eliminate the bias over a large part of the parameter space.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2013.12.003
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