“…In order to maintain a good balance between the goodness of fit and the model variability, a large number of basis func-1 Other contributions to the literature on the stability tests in cointegrating regression includes Hansen (1992), Hao (1996), Quintos (1997), Kuo (1998), Hansen and Johansen (1999), Johansen, Mosconi and Nielsen (2000), Harris, McCabe and Leybourne (2002), and among others. Furthermore, Hong and Phillips (2010) propose a modified RESET test for testing linearity in the cointegration model. Gao, King, Lu and Tjøstheim (2009) consider a nonparametric specification test for a nonparametric time series model with nonstationary variables.…”