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Cointegration in a macroeconomic system
Author(s) -
Kunst Robert,
Neusser Klaus
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of applied econometrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.878
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1099-1255
pISSN - 0883-7252
DOI - 10.1002/jae.3950050404
Subject(s) - cointegration , economics , econometrics , univariate , consumption (sociology) , investment (military) , wage , multivariate statistics , mathematics , statistics , market economy , social science , sociology , political science , law , politics
This paper investigates the long‐run relationships within a set of six quarterly time‐series on the Austrian economy by means of cointegration. After analysing the univariate properties, especially with respect to the appropriate seasonal filter, the maximum‐likelihood method proposed by Johansen (1988) is applied to estimate and test the cointegrating relationships. We found three such relations, implying that the system is driven by three independent stochastic time trends. In a next stage we investigate whether the empirically determined cointegrating relationships are compatible with implications derived from the neoclassical growth model with exogenous stochastic technical progress. It is found that the Austrian data strongly reject the propositions that the real interest rate and the log ratios of consumption to output, investment to output, and the real gross wage sum to output are stationary.