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You have five price series and suspect more than one cointegrating relationship. Which procedure?
- AJohansen, which tests the rank of the system and estimates all the relationships jointly
- BEngle and Granger applied pairwise to all ten pairs
- CAn augmented Dickey and Fuller test on each series individually
- DOrdinary least squares with robust standard errors
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