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Phillips-Perron (PP) Unit-Root Test

The Phillips-Perron test, proposed by Peter Phillips and Pierre Perron in 1988, tests for a unit root in a time series, like the Augmented Dickey-Fuller test, but corrects for autocorrelation and heteroskedasticity in the errors non-parametrically rather than by adding lagged differences. It runs a simple Dickey-Fuller regression and then adjusts the test statistic using a long-run variance estimate, so the practitioner need not choose a lag length for the regression itself.

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Sources

  1. Phillips, P. C. B., & Perron, P. (1988). Testing for a unit root in time series regression. Biometrika, 75(2), 335–346. DOI: 10.1093/biomet/75.2.335
  2. Newey, W. K., & West, K. D. (1987). A simple, positive semi-definite, heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation consistent covariance matrix. Econometrica, 55(3), 703–708. DOI: 10.2307/1913610

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ScholarGatePhillips-Perron Test (Phillips-Perron (PP) Unit-Root Test). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/econometrics/phillips-perron-test