
- •Table of Contents
- •What’s New in EViews 5.0
- •What’s New in 5.0
- •Compatibility Notes
- •EViews 5.1 Update Overview
- •Overview of EViews 5.1 New Features
- •Preface
- •Part I. EViews Fundamentals
- •Chapter 1. Introduction
- •What is EViews?
- •Installing and Running EViews
- •Windows Basics
- •The EViews Window
- •Closing EViews
- •Where to Go For Help
- •Chapter 2. A Demonstration
- •Getting Data into EViews
- •Examining the Data
- •Estimating a Regression Model
- •Specification and Hypothesis Tests
- •Modifying the Equation
- •Forecasting from an Estimated Equation
- •Additional Testing
- •Chapter 3. Workfile Basics
- •What is a Workfile?
- •Creating a Workfile
- •The Workfile Window
- •Saving a Workfile
- •Loading a Workfile
- •Multi-page Workfiles
- •Addendum: File Dialog Features
- •Chapter 4. Object Basics
- •What is an Object?
- •Basic Object Operations
- •The Object Window
- •Working with Objects
- •Chapter 5. Basic Data Handling
- •Data Objects
- •Samples
- •Sample Objects
- •Importing Data
- •Exporting Data
- •Frequency Conversion
- •Importing ASCII Text Files
- •Chapter 6. Working with Data
- •Numeric Expressions
- •Series
- •Auto-series
- •Groups
- •Scalars
- •Chapter 7. Working with Data (Advanced)
- •Auto-Updating Series
- •Alpha Series
- •Date Series
- •Value Maps
- •Chapter 8. Series Links
- •Basic Link Concepts
- •Creating a Link
- •Working with Links
- •Chapter 9. Advanced Workfiles
- •Structuring a Workfile
- •Resizing a Workfile
- •Appending to a Workfile
- •Contracting a Workfile
- •Copying from a Workfile
- •Reshaping a Workfile
- •Sorting a Workfile
- •Exporting from a Workfile
- •Chapter 10. EViews Databases
- •Database Overview
- •Database Basics
- •Working with Objects in Databases
- •Database Auto-Series
- •The Database Registry
- •Querying the Database
- •Object Aliases and Illegal Names
- •Maintaining the Database
- •Foreign Format Databases
- •Working with DRIPro Links
- •Part II. Basic Data Analysis
- •Chapter 11. Series
- •Series Views Overview
- •Spreadsheet and Graph Views
- •Descriptive Statistics
- •Tests for Descriptive Stats
- •Distribution Graphs
- •One-Way Tabulation
- •Correlogram
- •Unit Root Test
- •BDS Test
- •Properties
- •Label
- •Series Procs Overview
- •Generate by Equation
- •Resample
- •Seasonal Adjustment
- •Exponential Smoothing
- •Hodrick-Prescott Filter
- •Frequency (Band-Pass) Filter
- •Chapter 12. Groups
- •Group Views Overview
- •Group Members
- •Spreadsheet
- •Dated Data Table
- •Graphs
- •Multiple Graphs
- •Descriptive Statistics
- •Tests of Equality
- •N-Way Tabulation
- •Principal Components
- •Correlations, Covariances, and Correlograms
- •Cross Correlations and Correlograms
- •Cointegration Test
- •Unit Root Test
- •Granger Causality
- •Label
- •Group Procedures Overview
- •Chapter 13. Statistical Graphs from Series and Groups
- •Distribution Graphs of Series
- •Scatter Diagrams with Fit Lines
- •Boxplots
- •Chapter 14. Graphs, Tables, and Text Objects
- •Creating Graphs
- •Modifying Graphs
- •Multiple Graphs
- •Printing Graphs
- •Copying Graphs to the Clipboard
- •Saving Graphs to a File
- •Graph Commands
- •Creating Tables
- •Table Basics
- •Basic Table Customization
- •Customizing Table Cells
- •Copying Tables to the Clipboard
- •Saving Tables to a File
- •Table Commands
- •Text Objects
- •Part III. Basic Single Equation Analysis
- •Chapter 15. Basic Regression
- •Equation Objects
- •Specifying an Equation in EViews
- •Estimating an Equation in EViews
- •Equation Output
- •Working with Equations
- •Estimation Problems
- •Chapter 16. Additional Regression Methods
- •Special Equation Terms
- •Weighted Least Squares
- •Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation Consistent Covariances
- •Two-stage Least Squares
- •Nonlinear Least Squares
- •Generalized Method of Moments (GMM)
- •Chapter 17. Time Series Regression
- •Serial Correlation Theory
- •Testing for Serial Correlation
- •Estimating AR Models
- •ARIMA Theory
- •Estimating ARIMA Models
- •ARMA Equation Diagnostics
- •Nonstationary Time Series
- •Unit Root Tests
- •Panel Unit Root Tests
- •Chapter 18. Forecasting from an Equation
- •Forecasting from Equations in EViews
- •An Illustration
- •Forecast Basics
- •Forecasting with ARMA Errors
- •Forecasting from Equations with Expressions
- •Forecasting with Expression and PDL Specifications
- •Chapter 19. Specification and Diagnostic Tests
- •Background
- •Coefficient Tests
- •Residual Tests
- •Specification and Stability Tests
- •Applications
- •Part IV. Advanced Single Equation Analysis
- •Chapter 20. ARCH and GARCH Estimation
- •Basic ARCH Specifications
- •Estimating ARCH Models in EViews
- •Working with ARCH Models
- •Additional ARCH Models
- •Examples
- •Binary Dependent Variable Models
- •Estimating Binary Models in EViews
- •Procedures for Binary Equations
- •Ordered Dependent Variable Models
- •Estimating Ordered Models in EViews
- •Views of Ordered Equations
- •Procedures for Ordered Equations
- •Censored Regression Models
- •Estimating Censored Models in EViews
- •Procedures for Censored Equations
- •Truncated Regression Models
- •Procedures for Truncated Equations
- •Count Models
- •Views of Count Models
- •Procedures for Count Models
- •Demonstrations
- •Technical Notes
- •Chapter 22. The Log Likelihood (LogL) Object
- •Overview
- •Specification
- •Estimation
- •LogL Views
- •LogL Procs
- •Troubleshooting
- •Limitations
- •Examples
- •Part V. Multiple Equation Analysis
- •Chapter 23. System Estimation
- •Background
- •System Estimation Methods
- •How to Create and Specify a System
- •Working With Systems
- •Technical Discussion
- •Vector Autoregressions (VARs)
- •Estimating a VAR in EViews
- •VAR Estimation Output
- •Views and Procs of a VAR
- •Structural (Identified) VARs
- •Cointegration Test
- •Vector Error Correction (VEC) Models
- •A Note on Version Compatibility
- •Chapter 25. State Space Models and the Kalman Filter
- •Background
- •Specifying a State Space Model in EViews
- •Working with the State Space
- •Converting from Version 3 Sspace
- •Technical Discussion
- •Chapter 26. Models
- •Overview
- •An Example Model
- •Building a Model
- •Working with the Model Structure
- •Specifying Scenarios
- •Using Add Factors
- •Solving the Model
- •Working with the Model Data
- •Part VI. Panel and Pooled Data
- •Chapter 27. Pooled Time Series, Cross-Section Data
- •The Pool Workfile
- •The Pool Object
- •Pooled Data
- •Setting up a Pool Workfile
- •Working with Pooled Data
- •Pooled Estimation
- •Chapter 28. Working with Panel Data
- •Structuring a Panel Workfile
- •Panel Workfile Display
- •Panel Workfile Information
- •Working with Panel Data
- •Basic Panel Analysis
- •Chapter 29. Panel Estimation
- •Estimating a Panel Equation
- •Panel Estimation Examples
- •Panel Equation Testing
- •Estimation Background
- •Appendix A. Global Options
- •The Options Menu
- •Print Setup
- •Appendix B. Wildcards
- •Wildcard Expressions
- •Using Wildcard Expressions
- •Source and Destination Patterns
- •Resolving Ambiguities
- •Wildcard versus Pool Identifier
- •Appendix C. Estimation and Solution Options
- •Setting Estimation Options
- •Optimization Algorithms
- •Nonlinear Equation Solution Methods
- •Appendix D. Gradients and Derivatives
- •Gradients
- •Derivatives
- •Appendix E. Information Criteria
- •Definitions
- •Using Information Criteria as a Guide to Model Selection
- •References
- •Index
- •Symbols
- •.DB? files 266
- •.EDB file 262
- •.RTF file 437
- •.WF1 file 62
- •@obsnum
- •Panel
- •@unmaptxt 174
- •~, in backup file name 62, 939
- •Numerics
- •3sls (three-stage least squares) 697, 716
- •Abort key 21
- •ARIMA models 501
- •ASCII
- •file export 115
- •ASCII file
- •See also Unit root tests.
- •Auto-search
- •Auto-series
- •in groups 144
- •Auto-updating series
- •and databases 152
- •Backcast
- •Berndt-Hall-Hall-Hausman (BHHH). See Optimization algorithms.
- •Bias proportion 554
- •fitted index 634
- •Binning option
- •classifications 313, 382
- •Boxplots 409
- •By-group statistics 312, 886, 893
- •coef vector 444
- •Causality
- •Granger's test 389
- •scale factor 649
- •Census X11
- •Census X12 337
- •Chi-square
- •Cholesky factor
- •Classification table
- •Close
- •Coef (coefficient vector)
- •default 444
- •Coefficient
- •Comparison operators
- •Conditional standard deviation
- •graph 610
- •Confidence interval
- •Constant
- •Copy
- •data cut-and-paste 107
- •table to clipboard 437
- •Covariance matrix
- •HAC (Newey-West) 473
- •heteroskedasticity consistent of estimated coefficients 472
- •Create
- •Cross-equation
- •Tukey option 393
- •CUSUM
- •sum of recursive residuals test 589
- •sum of recursive squared residuals test 590
- •Data
- •Database
- •link options 303
- •using auto-updating series with 152
- •Dates
- •Default
- •database 24, 266
- •set directory 71
- •Dependent variable
- •Description
- •Descriptive statistics
- •by group 312
- •group 379
- •individual samples (group) 379
- •Display format
- •Display name
- •Distribution
- •Dummy variables
- •for regression 452
- •lagged dependent variable 495
- •Dynamic forecasting 556
- •Edit
- •See also Unit root tests.
- •Equation
- •create 443
- •store 458
- •Estimation
- •EViews
- •Excel file
- •Excel files
- •Expectation-prediction table
- •Expected dependent variable
- •double 352
- •Export data 114
- •Extreme value
- •binary model 624
- •Fetch
- •File
- •save table to 438
- •Files
- •Fitted index
- •Fitted values
- •Font options
- •Fonts
- •Forecast
- •evaluation 553
- •Foreign data
- •Formula
- •forecast 561
- •Freq
- •DRI database 303
- •F-test
- •for variance equality 321
- •Full information maximum likelihood 698
- •GARCH 601
- •ARCH-M model 603
- •variance factor 668
- •system 716
- •Goodness-of-fit
- •Gradients 963
- •Graph
- •remove elements 423
- •Groups
- •display format 94
- •Groupwise heteroskedasticity 380
- •Help
- •Heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation consistent covariance (HAC) 473
- •History
- •Holt-Winters
- •Hypothesis tests
- •F-test 321
- •Identification
- •Identity
- •Import
- •Import data
- •See also VAR.
- •Index
- •Insert
- •Instruments 474
- •Iteration
- •Iteration option 953
- •in nonlinear least squares 483
- •J-statistic 491
- •J-test 596
- •Kernel
- •bivariate fit 405
- •choice in HAC weighting 704, 718
- •Kernel function
- •Keyboard
- •Kwiatkowski, Phillips, Schmidt, and Shin test 525
- •Label 82
- •Last_update
- •Last_write
- •Latent variable
- •Lead
- •make covariance matrix 643
- •List
- •LM test
- •ARCH 582
- •for binary models 622
- •LOWESS. See also LOESS
- •in ARIMA models 501
- •Mean absolute error 553
- •Metafile
- •Micro TSP
- •recoding 137
- •Models
- •add factors 777, 802
- •solving 804
- •Mouse 18
- •Multicollinearity 460
- •Name
- •Newey-West
- •Nonlinear coefficient restriction
- •Wald test 575
- •weighted two stage 486
- •Normal distribution
- •Numbers
- •chi-square tests 383
- •Object 73
- •Open
- •Option setting
- •Option settings
- •Or operator 98, 133
- •Ordinary residual
- •Panel
- •irregular 214
- •unit root tests 530
- •Paste 83
- •PcGive data 293
- •Polynomial distributed lag
- •Pool
- •Pool (object)
- •PostScript
- •Prediction table
- •Principal components 385
- •Program
- •p-value 569
- •for coefficient t-statistic 450
- •Quiet mode 939
- •RATS data
- •Read 832
- •CUSUM 589
- •Regression
- •Relational operators
- •Remarks
- •database 287
- •Residuals
- •Resize
- •Results
- •RichText Format
- •Robust standard errors
- •Robustness iterations
- •for regression 451
- •with AR specification 500
- •workfile 95
- •Save
- •Seasonal
- •Seasonal graphs 310
- •Select
- •single item 20
- •Serial correlation
- •theory 493
- •Series
- •Smoothing
- •Solve
- •Source
- •Specification test
- •Spreadsheet
- •Standard error
- •Standard error
- •binary models 634
- •Start
- •Starting values
- •Summary statistics
- •for regression variables 451
- •System
- •Table 429
- •font 434
- •Tabulation
- •Template 424
- •Tests. See also Hypothesis tests, Specification test and Goodness of fit.
- •Text file
- •open as workfile 54
- •Type
- •field in database query 282
- •Units
- •Update
- •Valmap
- •find label for value 173
- •find numeric value for label 174
- •Value maps 163
- •estimating 749
- •View
- •Wald test 572
- •nonlinear restriction 575
- •Watson test 323
- •Weighting matrix
- •heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation consistent (HAC) 718
- •kernel options 718
- •White
- •Window
- •Workfile
- •storage defaults 940
- •Write 844
- •XY line
- •Yates' continuity correction 321

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See Hayashi (2000, p. 594) for a discussion of the selection of this upper bound.
Panel Unit Root Tests
Recent literature suggests that panel-based unit root tests have higher power than unit root tests based on individual time series. EViews will compute one of the following five types of panel unit root tests: Levin, Lin and Chu (2002), Breitung (2000), Im, Pesaran and Shin (2003), Fisher-type tests using ADF and PP tests (Maddala and Wu (1999) and Choi (2001)), and Hadri (1999).
While these tests are commonly termed “panel unit root” tests, theoretically, they are simply multiple-series unit root tests that have been applied to panel data structures (where the presence of cross-sections generates “multiple series” out of a single series). Accordingly, EViews supports these tests in settings involving multiple series: as a series view (if the workfile is panel structured), as a group view, or as a pool view.
Performing Panel Unit Root Tests in EViews
The following discussion assumes that you are familiar with the basics of both unit root tests and panel unit root tests.
To begin, select View/Unit Root Test…from the menu of an EViews group or pool object, or from the menu of an individual series in a panel structured workfile. Here we show the dialog for a Group unit root test—the other dialogs differ slightly (for the pool object, there is an additional field in the upper-left hand portion of the dialog where you must indicate the name of the pool series on which you wish to conduct your test; for the series object in a panel workfile, the “balanced sample” option is not present).

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If you wish to accept the default settings, simply click on OK. EViews will use the default Summary setting, and will compute a full suite of unit root tests on the levels of the series, along with a summary of the results.
To customize the unit root calculations, you will choose from a variety of options. The options on the left-hand side of the dialog determine the basic structure of the test or tests, while the options on the right-hand side of
the dialog control advanced computational details such as bandwidth or lag selection methods, or kernel methods.
The combo box at the top of the dialog is where you will choose the type of test to perform. There are six settings: “Summary”, “Common root - Levin, Lin, Chu”, “Common root - Breitung”, “Individual root - Im, Pesaran, Shin”, “Individual root - Fisher - ADF”, “Individual root - Fisher - PP”, and “Common root - Hadri”, corresponding to one or more of the tests listed above. The combo box labels include a brief description of the assumptions under which the tests are computed. “Common root” indicates that the tests are estimated assuming a common AR structure for all of the series; “Individual root” is used for tests which allow for different AR coefficients in each series.
We have already pointed out that the Summary default instructs EViews to estimate all of the tests, and to provide a brief summary of the results. Selecting an individual test type allows you better control over the computational method and provides additional detail on the test results.
The next two sets of radio buttons allow you to control the specification of your test equation. First, you may choose to conduct the unit root on the Level, 1st difference, or 2nd difference of your series. Next, you may choose between sets of exogenous regressors to be included. You can select Individual intercept if you wish to include individual fixed effects, Individual intercepts and individual trends to include both fixed effects and trends, or None for no regressors.
The Use balanced sample option is present only if you are estimating a Pool or a Group unit root test. If you select this option, EViews will adjust your sample so that only observations where all series values are not missing will be included in the test equations.

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Depending on the form of the test or tests to be computed, you will be presented with various advanced options on the right side of the dialog. For tests that involve regressions on lagged difference terms (Levin, Lin, and Chu, Breitung, Im, Pesaran, and Shin, Fisher - ADF) these options relate to the choice of the number of lags to be included. For the tests involving kernel weighting (Levin, Lin, and Chu, Fisher - PP, Hadri), the options relate to the choice of bandwidth and kernel type.
For a group or pool unit root test, the EViews default is to use automatic selection methods: information matrix criterion based for the number of lag difference terms (with automatic selection of the maximum lag to evaluate), and the Andrews or Newey-West method for bandwidth selection. For unit root tests on a series in a panel workfile, the default behavior uses user-specified options.
If you wish to override these settings, simply enter the appropriate information. You may, for example, select a fixed, user-specified number of lags by entering a number in the User specified field. Alternatively, you may customize the settings for automatic lag selection method. Alternative criteria for evaluating the optimal lag length may be selected via the combo box (Akaike, Schwarz, Hannan-Quinn, Modified Akaike, Modified Schwarz, Modified Hannan-Quinn), and you may limit the number of lags to try in automatic selection by entering a number in the Maximum lags box. For the kernel based methods, you may select a kernel type from the combo box (Bartlett, Parzen, Quadratic spectral), and you may specify either an automatic bandwidth selection method (Andrews, Newey-West) or user-specified fixed bandwidth.
As an illustration, we compute the summary panel unit root test, using individual fixed effects as regressors, and automatic lag difference term and bandwidth selection (using the Schwarz criterion for the lag differences, and the Newey-West method and the Bartlett kernel for the bandwidth). The results for the panel unit root test are presented below:

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Panel unit root test: Summary
Date: 07/02/03 Time: 13:13
Sample: 1935 1954
Exogenous variables: Individual effects
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The top of the output indicates the type of test, exogenous variables and test equation options. If we were instead estimating a Pool or Group test, a list of the series used in the test would also be depicted. The lower part of the summary output gives the main test results, organized both by null hypothesis as well as the maintained hypothesis concerning the type of unit root process. For example, we group the results for the LLC and the Breitung tests, since they both have a null of a unit root for the common process.
For the most part, the results indicate the presence of a unit root. The LLC, IPS, and both Fisher tests fail to reject the null of a unit root. Similarly, the Hadri test statistic, which tests the null of no unit root, strongly rejects the null in favor of a unit root. The one exception to this pattern is the Breitung test, which does reject the unit root null.
If you only wish to compute a single unit root test type, or if you wish to examine the tests results in greater detail, you may simply repeat the unit root test after selecting the desired test in Test type combo box. Here, we show the bottom portion of the LLC test specific output for the same data:

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For each cross-section, the autoregression coefficient, variance of the regression, HAC of the dependent variable, the selected lag order, maximum lag, bandwidth truncation parameter, and the number of observations used are displayed.
Panel Unit Root Details
Panel unit root tests are similar, but not identical, to unit root tests carried out on a single series. Here, we briefly describe the five panel unit root tests currently supported in EViews; for additional detail, we encourage you to consult the original literature. The discussion assumes that you have a basic knowledge of unit root theory.
We begin by classifying our unit root tests on the basis of whether there are restrictions on the autoregressive process across cross-sections or series. Consider a following AR(1) process for panel data:
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The Xit represent the exogenous variables in the model, including any fixed effects or individual trends, ρi are the autoregressive coefficients, and the errors it are assumed to be mutually independent idiosyncratic disturbance. If ρi < 1 , yi is said to be weakly (trend-) stationary. On the other hand, if ρi = 1 then yi contains a unit root.
For purposes of testing, there are two natural assumptions that we can make about the ρi . First, one can assume that the persistence parameters are common across cross-sections so

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that ρi = ρ for all i . The Levin, Lin, and Chu (LLC), Breitung, and Hadri tests all employ this assumption. Alternatively, one can allow ρi to vary freely across cross-sec- tions. The Im, Pesaran, and Shin (IPS), and Fisher-ADF and Fisher-PP tests are of this form.
Tests with Common Unit Root Process
Levin, Lin, and Chu (LLC), Breitung, and Hadri tests all assume that there is a common unit root process so that ρi is identical across cross-sections. The first two tests employ a null hypothesis of a unit root while the Hadri test uses a null of no unit root.
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Breitung
The Breitung method differs from LLC in two distinct ways. First, only the autoregressive portion (and not the exogenous components) is removed when constructing the standardized proxies:
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The Breitung method requires only a specification of the number of lags used in each cross-section ADF regression, pi , and the exogenous regressors. As with the LLC test, you may elect to include no exogenous regressors, or to include individual constant terms (fixed effects), or individual constants and trends. Note that in contrast with LLC, no kernel computations are required.
Hadri
The Hadri panel unit root test is similar to the KPSS unit root test, and has a null hypothesis of no unit root in any of the series in the panel. Like the KPSS test, the Hadri test is based on the residuals from the individual OLS regressions of yit on a constant, or on a constant and a trend. For example, if we include both the constant and a trend, we derive estimates from:
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Given the residuals ˆ from the individual regressions, we form the LM statistic:
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and f0 is the average of the individual estimators of the residual spectrum at frequency zero:
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EViews provides several methods for estimating the fi0 . See “Unit Root Tests” on page 518 for additional details.
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The Hadri panel unit root tests require only the specification of the form of the OLS regressions: whether to include only individual specific constant terms, or whether to include both constant and trend terms. EViews reports two Z -statistic values, one based on LM1 with the associated homoskedasticity assumption, and the other using LM2 that is heteroskedasticity consistent.
Tests with Individual Unit Root Processes
The Im, Pesaran, and Shin, and the Fisher-ADF and PP tests all allow for individual unit root processes so that ρi may vary across cross-sections. The tests are all characterized by the combining of individual unit root tests to derive a panel-specific result.
Im, Pesaran, and Shin
Im, Pesaran, and Shin begin by specifying a separate ADF regression for each cross section:
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In the case where the lag order is always zero ( pi = 0 for all i ), simulated critical values for tNT are provided in the IPS paper for different numbers of cross sections N , series lengths T , and for test equations containing either intercepts, or intercepts and linear trends. EViews uses these values, or linearly interpolated values, in evaluating the significance of the test statistics.
In the general case where the lag order in Equation (17.83) may be non-zero for some cross-sections, IPS show that a properly standardized tNT has an asymptotic standard normal distribution:
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The IPS test statistic requires specification of the number of lags and the specification of the deterministic component for each cross-section ADF equation. You may choose to include individual constants, or to include individual constant and trend terms.
Fisher-ADF and Fisher-PP
An alternative approach to panel unit root tests uses Fisher’s (1932) results to derive tests that combine the p-values from individual unit root tests. This idea has been proposed by Maddala and Wu, and by Choi.
If we define πi as the p-value from any individual unit root test for cross-section i , then under the null of unit root for all N cross-sections, we have the asymptotic result that

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For both Fisher tests, you must specify the exogenous variables for the test equations. You may elect to include no exogenous regressors, to include individual constants (effects), or include individual constant and trend terms.
Additionally, when the Fisher tests are based on ADF test statistics, you must specify the number of lags used in each cross-section ADF regression. For the PP form of the test, you must instead specify a method for estimating f0 . EViews supports estimators for f0 based on kernel-based sum-of-covariances. See “Frequency Zero Spectrum Estimation” beginning on page 527 for details.
Summary of Available Panel Unit Root Tests
The following table summarizes the basic characteristics of the panel unit root tests available in EViews:
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