`Weak` trends for inference and forecasting in finite samples.

This paper studies the small sample properties of processes which exhibit both a stochastic and a deterministic trend. Whereas for estimation, inference and forecasting purposes the latter asymptotically dominates the former, it is not so when only a finite number of observations is available and la...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chevillon, G
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Department of Economics (University of Oxford) 2004