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An Empirical Investigation of Fiscal Policy in New Zealand - WP 06/08

Appendix B: Stability tests

Appendix Table 2 – Stability test results for equations and individual parameters

Stability test results for equations and individual parameters.

* Indicates statistically significant unstable estimates

* Tax = Net tax and G.E. = Government Expenditure

Appendix Table 3 – Stability test results for the fiscal VAR model
Deterministic Stochastic Hodrick-Prescott First Difference
0.219 0.273 0.132 0.233
0.352 0.273 0.365 0.233
0.444 0.503 0.507 0.483
0.444 0.503 0.637 0.483
0.477 0.527 0.637 0.516
0.477 0.527 0.685 0.516
0.514 0.534 0.690 0.519
0.691 0.534 0.690 0.519
0.691 0.609 0.690 0.610
0.779 0.609 0.690 0.610
0.886 0.690 0.718 0.691
0.886 0.690 0.718 0.691
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