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Unit Roots In Life — A Graduate Student Story, Peter C.B. Phillips

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

This is a graduate student story. It mixes personal reflections with recollections of the extraordinary New Zealanders who shaped my thinking as a graduate student and beginning researcher — people who have had an enduring impact on my work and career as an econometrician. The story traces out these human initial conditions and unit roots that figure in my early life of teaching and research.