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Published: Economics Letters, January 1994, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 9-19


October 1993
Exploiting Cross Section Variation for Unit Root Inference in Dynamic Data

D. Quah

This paper considers unit root regressions in data having simultaneously extensive cross-section and time-series variation. The standard least squares estimators in such data structures turn out to have an asymptotic distribution that is neither $O_p(T^{-1})$ Dickey-Fuller, nor $O_p(N^{-1/2})$ normal and asymptotically unbiased. Instead, the estimator turns out to be consistent and asymptotically normal, but has a nonvanishing bias in its asymptotic distribution.




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