Ingrid Harbo, Soeren Johansen, Bent Nielsen and Anders Rahbek (1998) 'Asymptotic inference on cointegrating rank in partial systems' Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 16, p 388-399 ABSTRACT: The likelihood ratio test for cointegrating rank is analyzed for partial (or conditional) systems in the vector autoregressive error correction model. Under the assumption of weak exogeneity for the cointegrating parameters, the asymptotic distributions are given and tables are provided. A discussion is given of some of the assumptions of the model, why they are needed, and how they are tested.