Testing for Structural Change in the Presence of Auxiliary Models

Several estimation procedures such as the Efficient Method of Moments (EMM) of Gallant and Tauchen (1996) and Indirect Inference procedure of Gouriéroux, Monfort and Renault (1993) involve two models, an auxiliary one and a model of interest. The role played by both models poses challenges and provides new opportunities for hypothesis testing beyond the usual Wald, LM and LR-type tests. In this paper we present the asymptotic distribution theory for various classes of tests for structural change. Some procedures are extensions of standard tests while others are specific to the dual model setup and exploit its unique features.
[ - ]
[ + ]