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Sunil Paul
Madras School of Economics
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Spurious regression
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Symptoms:
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Yt = Yt1 + yt
Xt = Xt1 + xt
yt WN(0, y2 ); xt WN(0, x2 ) and E (yt xt ) = 0
Yt = 0 + 1 Xt + et
H0 : 1 = 0 is rejected at 5% sig level in 75 % cases, high R 2
with high autocorrelated errors
Sunil Paul
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Spurious regression
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For example Yt = P
Yt1 + yt . Xt =P
Xt1 + xt , where
t
t
|| < 1 then et = i=1 yt 0 i=1 1i xt thus et I (1)
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