“…To answer this question, Chan and Wei (1987) as well as Phillips (1987a,b) proposed the triangular array framework, so-called nearly nonstationary AR(1) model, and established the limiting distributions of the least squares estimator for θ n under the assumption that the conditional variance of the model ε t is finite. Further results of the least squares estimate for the near-integrated AR(1) model are presented by Chan (1988Chan ( , 1990, Chan and Tran (1989), Knight (1987), Rao (1978), Lai and Wei (1982), Cox and Llatas (1991), Larsson (1995) as well as by Cavaliere (2002).…”