Emory University
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Title: Cointegration in Frequency Domain*
Number: 02-09
Author: Daniel Levy
Issue Date: May 2002
Abstract: Existence of a cointegration relationship between two time series in the time domain imposes restrictions on the series zero-frequency behaviour in terms of their squared coherence, phase, and gain, in the frequency domain. I derive these restrictions by studying cross-spectral properties of a cointegrated bivariate system. Specifically, I demonstrate that if two difference stationary series, Xt and Yt , are cointegrated with a cointegrating vector [1 b] and thus share a common stochastic trend, then at the zero frequency, the squared coherence of (1-L)Xt  and (1-L)Yt will equal one, their phase will equal zero, and their gain will equal  |b| .

Journal of Time Series Analysis, 2002.

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