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Non-stationary and stationary variables

Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 6:22 am
by sybren
Does anyone know what the consequences for the properties of the OLS estimator are (biased/consistency/...) if you run following regression inflation = beta0 + beta1 * u + beta2 * s + epsilon, with inflation being I(1) process and u and s I(0) processes?

thanks in advance

Re: Non-stationary and stationary variables

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2014 5:29 am
by BobJ
You should preferably run a regression with both inflation and the regressor being I(0) (stationary). Is there a problem with first differencing inflation to get it to be I(0)?

Worst case scenario is to have both inflation and your regressor as I(1). You'd be running "spurious" regressions.