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COMMENTARIES ON “Unit Root Testing in Practice: Dealing with Uncertainty over the Trend and Initial Condition,” by David I. Harvey, Stephen J. Leybourne, and A.M. Robert Taylor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2009

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Footnotes

The author thanks Graham Elliott and Mark Watson for helpful discussions and the NSF for financial support via grant SES-0518036.

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