Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Gengenbach Christian Author-Name: Hecq Alain Author-Name: Urbain Jean-Pierre Author-workplace-name: METEOR Title: Are Panel Unit Root Tests Useful for Real-Time Data? Abstract: With the development of real-time databases, N vintages are available for T observations instead of a single realization of the time series process. Although the use of panel unit root tests with the aim to gain in efficiency seems obvious, empirical and simulation results shown in this paper heavily mitigate the intuitive perspective. Keywords: macroeconomics ; Series: Research Memoranda Creation-Date: 2011 Number: 012 File-URL: http://digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fedora/objects/guid:d498a600-d4f7-440a-a9d5-6a598c998fd8/datastreams/ASSET1/content File-Format: application/pdf File-Size: 333784 Handle: RePEc:unm:umamet:2011012