“…In a similar spirit, during the last decades a number of new time-varying dependence models have been proposed. One of these methodologies, the socalled locally stationary processes developed by Dahlhaus (1996Dahlhaus ( , 1997, has been widely discussed in the recent time series literature, see, for example, Dahlhaus (2000), von Sachs and MacGibbon (2000), Jensen and Whitcher (2000), Guo et al (2003), Genton and Perrin (2004), Orbe, Ferreira and Rodriguez-Poo (2005), Polonik (2006, 2009), Chandler and Polonik (2006), Fryzlewicz, Sapatinas and Subba Rao (2006) and Beran This is an electronic reprint of the original article published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in The Annals of Statistics, 2010, Vol. 38, No.…”