Testing For Structural Change Under Heteroscedasticity :A Note And An Application

Testing For Structural Change Under Heteroscedasticity :A Note And An Application

Testing for structural change or the Chow Test enjoyed numerous applications since its introduction by Chow. There have also been several extentions of this test. One of the more re- cent extentions is to the case of structures with unequal disturbance variances. This paper ex- tends the computationally sîmple Lagrange Multiplier test of structural change under hetero- scedasticity introduced by Erlat to the case of several structures. The result is then used in testing the Life-Cycle Hypothesis of saving utilizing household expenditure survey data of Ankara.

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