[cid:image002.png@01D1A613.0E17B840] ECONOMETRICS RESEARCH SEMINAR INVITATION The Institute for Advanced Studies cordially invites you to the following Econometrics Research Seminar <http://www.ihs.ac.at/vienna/resources/Economics/Papers/20130226_Paper_Zimmermann.pdf> Thursday, May 12, 2016 Institute for Advanced Studies Josefstädter Straße 39, 1080 Vienna Lecture Room E02, ground floor 9:00 am (Please note that the seminar will start at 9 am sharp!) Joakim Westerlund Lund University Optimal Panel Unit Root Testing with Covariates This paper provides asymptotic optimality results for panel unit root tests with covariates by deriving the Gaussian power envelope. The results extend those of Moon et al. (2007), who consider the special case when no information on covariates is available. The main conclusion is that the use of covariates holds considerable promise in the panel data context, much more so than in the time series context. The biggest difference occurs in the empirically relevant case with incidental trends. Speci cally, while the power envelope without covariates is defined within N^{-1/4}T^{-1}-neighborhoods of unity, the envelope with covariates is in general defined within N^{-1/2}T^{-1}-neighborhoods. Therefore, the use of the covariates not only leads to increased power, but it can actually have an order effect on the shrinking neighborhoods around unity for which power is non-negligible. As a way to explore this increase in power in practice, a feasible point optimal unit root test is proposed, whose small-sample properties are investigated by means of Monte Carlo simulation. We are looking forward to seeing you! Institute for Advanced Studies Josefstädter Straße 39, 1080 Vienna, Austria Tel.: +43 1 599 91 145 e-Mail: economics@ihs.ac.at<mailto:economics@ihs.ac.at> http://economics.ihs.ac.at<http://economics.ihs.ac.at/> LINKS DIRECTIONS TO IHS on Google maps<https://www.google.at/maps/place/Institut+f%C3%BCr+H%C3%B6here+Studien/@48.2096845,16.3476134,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x86d55731043062b7> ECONOMICS SEMINARS <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=o7e40khrmr1vn2lo20mhbe539g%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/Vienna> IN VIENNA<https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=o7e40khrmr1vn2lo20mhbe539g%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/Vienna> on Google calendar<https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=o7e40khrmr1vn2lo20mhbe539g%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/Vienna> [cid:image004.jpg@01CEBF6B.00DB9700]<http://economics.ihs.ac.at/> [http://www.ihs.ac.at/vienna/resources/Economics/Others/twitter-bird-white-on-blue.png]<https://twitter.com/IHS_Vienna>Institute for Advanced Studies @IHS_Vienna<https://twitter.com/IHS_Vienna> Diese Zusendung erfolgt entsprechend den Bestimmungen des TKG 247107. Sollten Sie keine weiteren Zusendungen wuenschen, senden Sie uns bitte eine kurze Mitteilung an: economics@ihs.ac.at<mailto:economics@ihs.ac.at>. If you do not want to receive our mailings please send an e-mail to: economics@ihs.ac.at<mailto:economics@ihs.ac.at>. Also sent to noeg-l@wu.ac.at<mailto:noeg-l@wu.ac.at> (https://mailman.wu.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/noeg-l).