In the second model our dummy variable membership in the EU was substituted by the dummy variable membership in the economic and monetary union and therefore we want to investigate whether it is advantageous to be a member of the Economic and Monetary Union or not. Now we denote year by t and country by i and use the following estimation for our basic model:
lnfdiit = β0 + β1(wages)it + β2(lnpop)it + β3(lnpatent)it + β4(gdp_growth)it + β5(lnelectric)it + β6(openness)it + β7(unemployment)it + β8(emu)it + ui + vit
5.1 Specification test
As long as we are using panel data model as in our previous model, we need to check whether to use fixed effects model or random effects model. To do this statistical check we will use Hausman test again.
5.1.1 Hausman Test
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The table “Hausman Test – Model 2” shows that the test statistic is not significant, and we cannot reject the null hypothesis. One should mention that this is a really marginal decision, because the p-value amounts to 7% and that is why we could not reject the null hypothesis at a significance level of 5% or 1%, but it would be possible to reject the null hypothesis at the 10% level. We decided to work with 5% significance level and therefore we decided to use our random effects
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This hypothesis testing uses the test statistics in which mechanism is based on the correlation integrals. The BDS test is a powerful tool for detecting serial dependence in time series. It tests the null hypothesis of independent and identically distributed (I.I.D.) against an unspecified alternative. The null and alternative hypothesis is as follows: H0: The data are independently and identically distributed (I.I.D.).
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One problem may owe to the inappropriate way of splitting sub-period. The Chow test assumes there is a known break point in the series. If this is not known, the Chow test is not appropriate. We could use the predictive failure test to do the test again to verify the result. Other reasonable approaches include splitting the data according to any obvious structural change in the series showing in the graph or any known important historical events.