Testing for rational bubbles in a co-explosive vector autoregression.

We derive the parameter restrictions that a standard equity market model implies for a bivariate vector autoregression for stock prices and dividends, and we show how to test these restrictions using likelihood ratio tests. The restrictions, which imply that stock returns are unpredictable, are deri...

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Main Authors: Engsted, T, Nielsen, B
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Nuffield College (University of Oxford) 2010