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Fixing a spurious regression by differencing

You have two independent random walks and a colleague ran a levels regression that produced fake significance. You suggest regressing the first differences (the period-to-period changes) instead.

Explain why differencing removes the spurious result.

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This one is open-ended. Work it through, then check your reasoning against the full solution.

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