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Since the introduction of CUSUM statistic by E.S. Page (1951), detection of change or a structural break in time series has gained significant interest as its applications span across various disciplines including economics, industrial applications, and environmental data sets. However, many of the early suggested statistics, such as CUSUM or MOSUM, lose their effectiveness when applied to time series data. Either the size or power of the test statistic gets distorted, especially for higher order autoregressive moving average processes. We use the test statistic from Gombay and Serban (2009) for detecting change in the mean of an autoregressive process and show how the application of sieve bootstrap to the time series data can improve the performance of our test to detect change. The effectiveness of the proposed method is illustrated by applying it to economic data sets.

Since the introduction of CUSUM statistic by E.S. Page (1951), detection of change or a structural break in time series has gained significant interest as its applications span across various disciplines including economics, industrial applications, and environmental data sets. However, many of the early suggested statistics, such as CUSUM or MOSUM, lose their effectiveness when applied to time series data. Either the size or power of the test statistic gets distorted, especially for higher order autoregressive moving average processes. We use the test statistic from Gombay and Serban (2009) for detecting change in the mean of an autoregressive process and show how the application of sieve bootstrap to the time series data can improve the performance of our test to detect change. The effectiveness of the proposed method is illustrated by applying it to economic data sets.

In this paper, we propose two types of sieve bootstrap, univariate and multivariate approach, for the generalized method of moments estimators of time series data. Compared with the nonparametric block bootstrap, the sieve bootstrap is in essence parametric, which helps fitting data better when researchers have prior information about the time series properties of the variables of interested. Our Monte Carlo experiments show that the performances of these two types of sieve bootstrap are comparable to the performance of the block bootstrap. Furthermore, unlike the block bootstrap, which is sensitive to the choice of block length, these two types of sieve bootstrap are less sensitive to the choice of lag length.