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spr (60,3)     spr (24,3)

spr (36,3)-----spr (12,3)

tp (60,3)     tp (24,3)

tp (36,3)-----tp (12,3)

Figure 2

All the time series are covariance stationary. The results of both the Augmented Dickey-Fuller
(ADF), the Kwiatkowski-Phillips-Schmidt-Shin (KPSS), and the Phillips-Perron (PP) tests are
reported in Table 2. The top panel of the table reports the probability values of the ADF test. In the
central panel the LM statistics values of the KPSS test are displayed. In the bottom panel we
provide the results of the Phillips-Perron test. Both the ADF and the Phillips-Perron tests lead to the
rejection of the unit root hypothesis; while, the null hypothesis of stationarity cannot be rejected by
the KPSS test7.

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sample jan64-sep02

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long term maturity ( n )

obs 465___________

6

12

24

36

60

120

spread

ADF

(0.000)*

(0.000)*

(0.000)*

(0.003)*

(0.011)*

(0.017)*

thspr

ADF

(0.000)*

(0.001)*

(0.001)*

(0.002)*

(0.001)

(0.017)

_tP________

ADF

(0.000)*

(0.000)*

(0.000)*

(0.001)*

(0.006)

(0.108)

spread

KPSS

0.661*

0.087*

0.374*

0.449*

0.532*

0.624*

thspr

KPSS

0.152*

0.182*

0.243*

0.318*

0.477*

0.206**

tp________

KPSS

0.079*

0.217*

0.490*

0.672*

0.143**

0.208**a

spread

PP

(0.000)*

(0.000)*

(0.000)*

(0.000)*

(0.001)*

(0.003)*

thspr

PP

(0.000)*

(0.000)*

(0.000)*

(0.004)*

(0.002)

(0.012)

_tp________

PP

(0.000)*

(0.000)*

(0.003)*

(0.023)*

(0.030)

(0.084)b

The short term maturity is always m = 3 months. Exogenuos: *Intercept, **Intercept and

Trend; a18 lags; estimated with fixed spectral autoregressive least squares.

Table 2

7 To match the monthly frequency of data, the rule of thumb selected number of lags in the auxiliary regression is 12.
The automatic lag selection based on different criteria (Akaike, Schwarz, Hannan-Quinn) is roughly consistent with our
choice. Unit root test results obtained with the automatic lag selections are similar. The KPSS critical values are 0.739
(1%), 0.463 (5%), and 0.347 (10%) when the intercept is included in the model. Only in one case (120, 3) we laso
include the time trend in the KPSS auxiliary regression. The KPSS test critical values if also the trend is added are
0.216, 0.146, and 0.119 at 1%, 5%, and 10% significance levels respectively.



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